Cover image for The new kid on the block : poems / by Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by James Stevenson.
Title:
The new kid on the block : poems / by Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by James Stevenson.
ISBN:
9780688022716

9780688022723

9780062239501
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, [1984]

©1984
Physical Description:
159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Ah! A monster's lot is merry -- Alley cat with one life left -- Alligators are unfriendly -- Archie B McCall -- Ballad of a boneless chicken -- Baloney Belly Billy -- Be glad your nose is on your face -- Bleezer's ice cream -- Bloders are exploding -- Boing! Boing! Squeak! -- Bulgy bunne -- Carpenter rages -- Cave beast greets a visitor -- Cherries' garden gala -- Clara Cleech -- Come see the thing -- Cow's outside -- Cuckoo! -- Dainty Dottie Dee -- Dauntless dimble -- Diatonic dittymunch -- Do oysters sneeze? -- Dora Diller -- Drumpp the grump -- Eggs! -- Euphonia jarre -- Flimsy fleek -- Floradora Doe -- Flotz -- Forty performing bananas -- Granny Grizer -- Griselda Gratz -- Gussie's greasy spoon -- Happy birthday, dear dragon -- Henrietta Snetter -- Homework! Oh, homework! -- I am falling off a mountain -- I am flying! -- I am running in a circle -- I do not like the rat! -- I found a four-leaf clover -- I spied my shadow sinking -- I toss them to my elephant -- I wonder why Dad is so thoroughly mad -- I'd never dine on dinosaurs -- I'd never eat a beet -- I'm bold, I'm brave -- I'm disgusted with my brother -- I'm in a rotten mood! -- I'm thankful -- I'm the single most wonderful person I know -- Irritating creature -- Its fangs were red -- I've got an incredible headache -- I've got an itch -- Jellyfish stew -- Lavinia Nink -- Louder that a clap of thunder -- Ma! Don't throw that shirt out -- Mabel, remarkable Mabel -- Mean Maxine -- Michael built a bicycle -- Microscopic topic -- Miraculous Mortimer -- Mungle and the munn -- My baby brother -- My brother's head should be replaced -- My dog, he is an ugly dog -- My mother says I'm sickening -- My sister is a sissy -- Neighbors are not fond of me -- Never mince words with a shark -- New kid on the block -- New York is in North Carolina -- Nine mice -- No, I won't turn orange! -- Nothing-doings -- Oh, teddy bear -- Ounce and bounce -- Seymour Snorkke -- Sidney Snorkke -- Sir Blushington Bloone -- Sneaky Sue -- Snillies -- Something silky -- Song of the gloopy gloppers -- Stringbean small -- Super-goopy glue -- Suzanna socked me Sunday -- There is a thing -- Throckmorton Thratte -- Today is a day to crow about -- Today is very boring -- Unassuming owl -- Uncanny Colleen -- Underwater wibbles -- We each wore half a horse -- We heard Wally wail -- What nerve you've got, Minerva Mott! -- When Dracula went to the blood bank -- When Tillie ate the chili -- When young, the slyne -- Wolf is at the laundromat -- You need to have an iron rear -- Yubbazubbies -- Zany Zapper Zockke -- Zoosher.
Summary:
Over 100 hilarious poems about strange creatures and people--from jellyfish stew to a bouncing mouse, and a boneless chicken.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.7 4 Quiz: 08316 Guided reading level: P.
Audience:
NP Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm10071374
Availability:
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