This week, I woke my son up for school. He rolled over and looked me straight in the eye, “Can I just stay home today? I just want to play hookie and enjoy first day of Spring.” I did everything I could not to burst out laughing at his simple honesty and excitement of the little things. Being the good mother I am, I had to send him to school despite his request, but it did get me thinking about the way kids see life. This sent me into a search for kid’s poetry and I found the funniest poetry books that I could share with my son.
There are the classics: Mother Goose, Shel Silverstein, and Dr. Seuss, and then to my delight, I found Bruce Lansky. When I discovered his children’s poetry, I couldn’t get enough. I began reading some of them aloud to my 10 year old son and next thing I knew, he was sitting almost in my lap devouring the poetry along with me.

We read “Yucky Poems” about dirty socks, burping, piggy pooper-scoopers, and eating earwax. We read “Silly Poems” about runny noses, "Mary had a little Frog", and a take on “Jack was Nimble” where he burnt his pants on the candle he jumped over. We read tall tales about aliens, and growing up to be a baby.

Along with Poetry that 10 year old boys laugh for hours about, Bruce Lansky also has poetry classes for kids and does presentations in school with other children’s poetry authors to spark children’s imaginations and turn their hearts toward poetry.

My son has already let me know that I need to buy him all of Bruce Lansky’s books. I am so looking forward to sitting down with our new collection. Who knows, maybe we will play hookie one day and have a poetry party, reading the entire Bruce Lansky collection!

You can check out Bruce Lansky’s poetry along with hundreds of poems to read and rate at Giggle Poetry Make sure you have your giggle meter’s ready before going here, as it is sure to bring laughter, groans, and smiles as you read poetry from a kids point of view.