A Funeral in the Bathroom
and Other School Poems
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
2012 IRA-CBC Children's Choices
2012 Children's Choice Book Award Finalist
My teacher's pretty slick, Has a hundred teaching tricks. Even in the bathroom stalls, She hangs poetry on the walls, And while I'm there all alone I can't help but read a poem. From "Gross" and "Flushophobic" to "There's a Sock in the Toilet," these poems will have kids laughing all the way to "The Bathroom Dance!"
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With several offerings built around the idea that "There should be a place/ kids can go/ when life has dealt/ another blow," Dakos's humorous, bittersweet poems and Beech's mischievous illustrations center on the school bathroom as a place of refuge, camaraderie, and, of course, necessity. Episodes vary from minor humiliations one kid drags toilet paper on his shoe into class to more somber affairs. "Before I went/ to the hospital,/ I hid in the bathroom / and cried./ I'm back with/ a horrible secret:/ This time/ I could have died," relates a girl gazing despondently at her reflection. A heartfelt collage of relatable moments. Ages 6 9.
