John Ciardi

Thirty five poems about white mice, cool drinks, teeth of sharks, day Mommy slept late ... etc. Pull up a chair, make yourself comfortable, and get ready to laugh.

"Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth-century epic poem The Divine Comedy, and turned him into an action-adventure video game hero. Dante wrote his poem in the vernacular, rather than in literary Latin. Bang has similarly created an idiomatically rich contemporary version that is accessible, musical, and audacious. She?s matched...

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.