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Title details for If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand by Kalli Dakos - Available

If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand

Poems about School

by Kalli Dakos
Christina Moore
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This is a book for kids who wish they were jumping in leaf piles and climbing trees instead of learning their multiplication tables. It's for kids who worry that they'll never make it out of third grade, or that the other kids will make fun of them, or that their best will never be good enough. Messy desks, forgotten homework, embarrassing hiccups, favorite teachers-they're all here in these silly, sad, and funny poems. Kalli Dakos blends clever wit and insight with her experience as a former elementary reading specialist to make poetry fun and accessible to young children. The voices of three unique and talented narrators capture that school-related fun, fantasy, and fear that never truly ends for anyone who has ever lived the school experience.

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  • Release date

    December 15, 1997

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449876159
      • File size: 25283 KB
      • Duration: 00:52:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Former teacher Dakos knows what it's like to be in third grade, and, with wit and insight, she examines the fun and angst of going to school. Although most of the poems are humorous, a few, like "Name Calling," are serious and touching. The narrators, a woman and two men, read the poems with an enthusiasm that captures their music and rhythm. Unfortunately, there's no narrator attribution. And, although each narrator begins his/her poem by giving its title, the titles of the poems are not listed anywhere in the package. P.B.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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