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A collection of forty-two brief verses relate the outrageous and side-tickling adventures of mischievous children, describing first their naughty behaviors and then their equally outrageous, if not fully deserved, punishments. Reprint.
First published March 1, 1986
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April 28, 2017
A hiss! A gulp! Where are you, Niles?
Why is your huge pet snake all smiles?
Are you in there, you little dickens?
Where it kind of lumps and thickens?
Fans of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies - this one's for you!
Kennedy introduces us to a passel of misbehaving minors, most of whom deserve all the nasty, rotten things that happen to them.
Stealing eggs, Fritz ran afoul
Of an angry great horned owl.
Now she has him ---what a catch! ---
Seeing if his head will hatch.
_______________________
John while swimming in the ocean
Rubbed sharks' backs with suntan lotion.
Now those sharks have skin of bronze
In their bellies --- namely, John's.
________________________
"Hurry, Doctor! Greedy Greg's
Gobbled all my Easter eggs ---
Really, hand-grenades I'd dyed."
"Hmm," says Doc. "Greg, open wide -----
Wider ------wider -------"
BOOOOM!
"Uh-oh.
Guess that's as wide as Greg will go.
Sadly, not all of the poems result in terrible tykes exploding, or being eaten by wild animals. This, more than anything, probably accounts for my three-star review.
All the same, if you've already worked your way through Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, you might want to give these a try.
Why is your huge pet snake all smiles?
Are you in there, you little dickens?
Where it kind of lumps and thickens?
Fans of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies - this one's for you!
Kennedy introduces us to a passel of misbehaving minors, most of whom deserve all the nasty, rotten things that happen to them.
Stealing eggs, Fritz ran afoul
Of an angry great horned owl.
Now she has him ---what a catch! ---
Seeing if his head will hatch.
_______________________
John while swimming in the ocean
Rubbed sharks' backs with suntan lotion.
Now those sharks have skin of bronze
In their bellies --- namely, John's.
________________________
"Hurry, Doctor! Greedy Greg's
Gobbled all my Easter eggs ---
Really, hand-grenades I'd dyed."
"Hmm," says Doc. "Greg, open wide -----
Wider ------wider -------"
BOOOOM!
"Uh-oh.
Guess that's as wide as Greg will go.
Sadly, not all of the poems result in terrible tykes exploding, or being eaten by wild animals. This, more than anything, probably accounts for my three-star review.
All the same, if you've already worked your way through Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, you might want to give these a try.
February 20, 2022
Just re-read to my son. I'm not a huge poetry fan, but I LOVED this collection when I was in middle school. Short poems that rhyme, are funny, and just a bit irreverent. The illustrations are great, too.
April 7, 2024
I think kids will have fun with this.
July 23, 2008
One of my favorite poems is;
"Hurry doctor Greedy Greg's,
swallowed all my Easter eggs.
Really hand grenades I'd died,
Hmm... says doc, open wide
wider
wider
boom uh oh
guess that's wide as Greg will go."
Greedy Greg
"Hurry doctor Greedy Greg's,
swallowed all my Easter eggs.
Really hand grenades I'd died,
Hmm... says doc, open wide
wider
wider
boom uh oh
guess that's wide as Greg will go."
Greedy Greg
May 29, 2008
Read on Pg 42
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January 15, 2009
Another excellent poetry book! This book is full of very short, witty poems that are quite hilarious. Very rich vocabulary, and another good choice to get kids hooked on poetry!
March 9, 2018
Maybe not as funny as I remember it,but it's still enjoyable. My favorite will always be the bit about John and the sharks...
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