Rumpus of Rhymes: A Noisy Book of Poems

By Bobbi Katz

This book takes a noisy- and entirely fresh and funny - approach to poetry. In it, verses sputter, shout, chatter, and beg to be read out loud. Poet Bobbi Katz sets every foot to tapping and tongue to rapping with her infectious odes to noises of all kinds. From burps to soothing ocean waves to honking horns, noises jump and jangle. Paired with the stylish, boldly graphic illustrations of newcomer Susan Kwas, whose artwork snaps and pops as vigorously as the poems themselves, this volume guarantees readers an eyeful as well as an earful. After enjoying the noisiness, kids will want to raise a rousing cheer for poetry!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525467181
• ISBN13: 9780525467182
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Love that Noise.....

"Libraries have signs like these:/QUIET/DON'T TALK/SILENCE PLEASE/By day they're read by me and you./Mostly we do what the signs tell us to./Now imagine the library late at night./The windows are shut and the door's locked tight./But the words in the books are wide awake,/and the noisy words start to itch and ache!/They've been sitting in silence on printed pages,/not making a sound for ages and ages./Suddenly they can't bear the quiet./They burst out of the books in a rackety riot..." Poet Bobbi Katz has written a collection of 28 high spirited, rhyming, "noisy" poems full of rhythm, energy, humor, and motion that just beg to be performed and read aloud. Each verse is filled with wordplay, alliteration, and especially onomatopoeia in colorful, inventive typefaces of all shapes and sizes, that help bring the creative words and descriptive sounds to life. Susan Estelle Kwas' bold and bright cartoon-like illustrations are wonderfully expressive and add to the fun. Together Katz and Kwas have authored both a feast for the ears and the eyes that will send little imaginations soaring. Perfect for youngsters 5 and older, Rumpus Of Rhymes is a delightful, silly and innovative collection the whole family can share and enjoy, and a book that shouldn't be missed.