If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems about School

by Kalli Dakos

Book Overview

For every student who's ever worried about spending a lifetime in the third grade and for every teacher who's faced a class where nobody remembered to bring milk money, these thirty-eight poems... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027255816
• ISBN13: 9780027255812
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Excellent intro to poetry

Its so difficult to interest children in poetry nowadays. This book is your best chance because it offers poems with substance and insight that genuinely entertain as well.

EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED READING

This wonderful book of elementary school life poems was a recommended summer reading for my 5th grader. I thank the one who recommended it. She loves it. I recommend it for all ages...I love it too and I'm a few decades past the 5th grade. Get this one for your child and he/she will thank you with their pleasure of the book and their reading to you.

If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand

This book, so acurately subtitled "Poems About School," is a hit with students and teachers alike. Ms Dakos takes everyday elementary school situations and problems, and -- through her poetry-- manages to pinpoint the goings on in every classroom in America using humor and sensitivity. The student with the messiest desk, the boy who cries at the drop of a hat, the new kid who hates math, the child who comes to class with more alibis than homework assignments, the children who just can't follow the rules, are all members of the class in Ms Dakos' first book, "If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand-- Poems About School." This is truly a "class" anthology!