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Tickle your teachers! Build an anti-homework time machine! Learn the perfect answer to any question! Celebrate Backwards Walking Day! (!Too Day Talking Backwards And)

Fasten your giggle belts! Here come more dangerously-funny poems that capture kids' laughs and concerns about school and life. And, once again, Peter Lourie's stunning photos capture kid-faces that are guaranteed to put a smile on yours! You'll be totally tickled (and so will your teachers, whether they like it or not!)

Here's what some famous poets and authors are saying about "I Tickled My Teachers":

  J. Patrick Lewis, award-winning children's author and poet wrote, "By night, Ted Scheu is a children's poet extraordinaire; by day, a children's shrink roaming the halls of kids' brains. How else does one capture, spot on, a whacky elementary child's mind?"    

Jean Marzollo, the author of the "I Spy" series wrote: "A delightful, funny, and often poignant expression of today's school children, this book will amuse and inspire kids to write, write, write!"

Rebecca Kai Dotlich, poet and author of many books for young readers, said: "Ted Scheu's poems, along with Peter Lourie's photos, provide just the right combination of mischievous humor and emotion to entertain poetry-hungry kids. Full of waggish poems and faces that will surely tickle both teachers and students."

I Froze My Mother and Other Funny Family Poems, 2007, Cold Tree Press, TN. 
Ages 6-11.

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Freeze your mother! Learn new words from your dad! Trade your brother! Help your sister share her secrets! Here's a collection of 61 of my favorite family poems, overflowing with dreams, screams, groans, and giggles. The voices lurking in these poems combine with eye-popping Peter Lourie photographs to endlessly tickle your gigglebone.

You'll zoom through this collection before your mother even thaws!

Here are some recent reviews of the book from other top childrens' authors and poets:

  Jean Marzollo, the author of the best-selling "I Spy" series wrote: "I love this book! It's laugh-out-loud funny and also true to kids' lives. The photographs are great!"

Kenn Nesbitt, poet and author of "When the Teacher Isn't Looking" wrote: "They're clever, astute, and unfailingly funny. They're genuine, charming, and right on the money. You're certain to love these new poems from Scheu.  Hip, hip, hooray for ?That Poetry Guy!'"

J. Patrick Lewis, author of piles of popular poetry books for young readers wrote: "Ted Scheu's "seriously funny family poems"gleefully demonstrate that he is seriously off his noodle?high praise for a children's poet. I FROZE MY MOTHER takes up where Jack Prelutsky left off...somewhere in outer space."

 "A charming and perceptive collection of poems that show what life looks like from a child's perspective," wrote Bruce Lansky, the "King of Giggle Poetry," and a poet and publisher of many wonderfully successful anthologies from Meadowbrook Press.

Robert Scotellaro, author of "Snail Stampede and Other Poems" wrote, "These are engaging and sure-footed poems that romp through the mischievous and fun-filled territory of childhood and family life.  What a great talent Scheu has for writing kid's poems that head straight for the funny bone--he's got a direct link!"     

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