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First, a reading-related poem from Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems<\/em> written and illustrated by Robert Weinstock<\/a> (Hyperion, April 2009) who is also the author\/illustrator of the VERY entertaining Giant Meatball<\/a> (Harcourt, June 2008).<\/p>\n\nFOOD FOR THOUGHT<\/p>\n
You may not know your brain is eating
Every word you’ve just been reading.
Its appetite is most exceeding.
Food for thought, worth oft repeating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe other poems in this book generally (though not always!) tackle the subject of more "traditional" foods, though in VERY untraditional ways! For example, take the double-page spread on which Weinstock has recreated the Great Green Room of Goodnight Moon<\/em> fame but replaced its loveable bunnies with praying mantids. As if that doesn’t skew things enough, here’s the poem that accompanies that scene:<\/p>\n
\nMOM<\/p>\n
I ate your father. Yes, it’s true.
That’s what we praying mantids do.
His last words to me were "Adieu.
If only I could eat you, too."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAdmit it! You chuckled, didn’t you? Maybe even guffawed? I thought so.<\/p>\n
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Next up: two samples of fun from Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue<\/em> by Jon Agee (Hyperion, March 2009), who is also the author\/illustrator of the VERY entertaining