Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs - Alan Katz
School-dissing ditties may grate on parents.
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- Author:Alan Katz
- # of pages: 32
- Publisher:Simon and Schuster BFYR
- Original Publication Date: 07/01/2008
- Genre: Fiction - Picture Book
- Hardcover: $16.99
- Publisher's Recommended Reading Level: 9
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the jokes and their own family's values around school. Can you come up with your own silly songs? Maybe kids can put on a family concert complete with costumes and some slapstick dance moves.
Message
Social Behavior:
Kids try to get out of homework, forget to study for tests, and abuse their hall passes.
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Violence
Sex
Language
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Dawn Friedman
Is it any good?
As poems go, well, they're not bad. Namely they rhyme and easily replace the lyrics to familiar songs like "London Bridge Is Falling Down" and "Hey Diddle Diddle." But parents looking for more than superficial laughs will be disappointed. The pictures are suitably matched to the content; lots of screechy looking kids with misshapen heads and pursed faces. They're definitely funny but a little grotesque, too, like the poems themselves.
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A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Mirdechai Richler
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