Aberdeen Loves Funny Poems!

I love to read funny poems to our Aberdeen students.  The title alone caught my attention for this week's pick.  Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and Other Stories You're Sure to Like Because They're All About Monsters, and Some of Them are Also About Food.  You Like Food, Don't You? Well, All Right Then (yep!  That's the whole title!), by Adam Rex is full of hilarious poems.

The vocabulary and rhyming are very engaging.  The illustrations are full of detail and refer to other monsters, creatures from Greek mythology, and folktales.  These details kept my fifth grade audience engaged.  My favorite poem from the collection is The Invisible Man Gets a Haircut. Students spotted Medusa and the Headless Horseman in the same barber shop.

I read selected poems to our fourth and fifth grade students, and now they are fighting for the chance to check this book out themselves!