Time for bed? Time for poetry! Former Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt presents a blockbuster collection of brief, original gems by the most beloved writers and poets of our time. Illuminated with dreamlike wit and whimsy by New York Times illustrator and award-winning artist Christoph Niemann, here is a new bedtime classic. Containing more than 140 original contributions, including all-new poems from Jack Prelutsky, Jon Scieszka, Dennis Lee, Sharon Creech, Nancy Willard, Mary Ann Hoberman, Nikki Grimes, Judith Viorst, Lemony Snicket, Lee Bennet Hopkins, Naomi Shihab Nye, X. J. Kennedy, Jane Yolen, and many more, bedtime just got easier. When it's time for tuck-in, and your little one wants just one more moment with you, fill it with something that will feed the imagination and fuel a love of reading. Share a one-minute poem!

Talented poet Kenn Nesbitt's picture book debut will have you laughing while shouting More Bears!A" along with the story's disruptive audience. The author/narrator keeps adding more and more bears, which he describes in humorous detail, until he gets fed up! The bears ride, dance, surf, and even summersault off the page.

A collection of weird and wonderful poems. Follow one boy through his day as he plays with his friends and creates havoc along the way. Written by Kenn Nesbitt, this collection is accompanied by the quirky illustrations of Sophie Burrows. Gold/Band 9 fiction offers developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters. Text type: A poetry book Pages 22 and 23 show the boy's memories of his day, allowing children to recap and discuss the poems they have read. Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking Part; Literacy: Poems to Perform. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Kids love Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry With their rollicking rhythms, playful rhymes, and mischievous twists, kids can't stop reading these poems.

"The Armpit of Doom" includes seventy new poems about crazy characters, funny families, peculiar pets, comical creatures, and much, much more.

Reviews

Irrepressible, unpredictable, and raucously popular children's poet Kenn Nesbitt was spawned in the same cracked petri dish as Jack Prelutsky, to whom he is the natural heir. A title guaranteed to generate "No, wait, read this one " responses, "The Armpit of Doom" is more mayhem from one of the masters.
(J. Patrick Lewis, US Children's Poet Laureate, author of "Please Bury Me in the Library")

Kenn Nesbitt wrote a book of poems
A funny one I think.
And though it's colored black and white
Watch it tickle you PINK
(Douglas Florian, author and illustrator of "Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings")

Kenn Nesbitt's brain is the clown car of children's poetry. I don't know how they all fit in there, but they keep tumbling out, one after another, each one funnier than the one before it.
(Eric Ode, poet and songwriter. Author of "When You're a Pirate Dog and Other Pirate Poems")

I liked "Armpit" (the book) a lot. Armpits aren't my favorite body part.
(Bruce Lansky, author of "If Pigs Could Fly... And Other Deep Thoughts" and "My Dog Ate My Homework")

Despite the many warnings ("Please Don't Read This Poem ") kids cannot escape the odorous allure of Nesbitt's THE ARMPIT OF DOOM No problem. They won't want to Instead they will find "There's only one solution. Here's what you'll have to do: Tell all your friends and family they shouldn't read it too "
(Charles Ghigna, AKA "Father Goose," author of "Score 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire")

What makes this collection most special are the contemporary details sprinkled throughout (the iPod, XBox, and Kindle, Red Bull, J.K. Rowling, scrunchies, computer woes). Kids will really love the clever nonsense in poems like "On the Thirty-Third of Januaugust" and "It's Fun to Leave the Spaces Out." Teachers, beware: theirsentencesmightlooklikethisforafewdaysafterreadingthisbook "
(Janet Wong, author of "You Have to Write")

Fans of Kenn Nesbitt will gobble up this new offering, which combines his infallible command of rhyme scheme with the hilarious--yet oddly contemplative--wisdom of a child pondering the world.
(Joyce Sidman, author of "Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature")