Kalli

An illustrated collection of poems about a variety of elementary school experiences.

I may be a Prince, but there are things that trouble me about my father's royal rule-the forced abduction, experimentation, and torture of alien creatures. The king has a new prisoner who's a carefully kept secret... There's a young female who belongs to a little-known civilization I have been studying extensively. They are human, belonging to a small, undeveloped planet called Earth. She is pretty in a way I find unusual and compelling. Sometimes...

In September, when the school principal promises to kiss a pig if the students read 10,000 books, a girl volunteers Hamlet, her unwilling, Shakespeare-quoting pet pig. But poor Hamlet wants nothing to do with such foolishness. "To kiss, or not to kiss, The principal in school? Why choose a pig To be their fool?" By the end of April the kids still have a long way to go, and it looks as if Hamlet is safe. But after an author comes to visit and the school...

It's crazy how much we change throughout our lives. How many people we are. How many people we become. A child who was afraid of their parents to an adolescent who realized their parents were once children who had their own lives before us. A teenager, practically afraid to touch a boy, to an adult who tongue kisses and does other things with boys. A person we never thought we would ever be, to staring at the mirror realizing you are that person....

A collection of simple poems depict the activities at school from the morning welcome until the closing bell.

Charley and Emily Elizabeth decide to work the ice cream machine themselves. Things go smoothly...until the lever gets stuck and they find themselves knee-deep in ice cream!

Poems reflect life in lively classrooms and are based on the author's experiences as an elementary school teacher.

A collection of poems that reflect the varied, sometimes funny, sometimes serious activities and emotions of the school year.