Tickles, Pickles, and Floofing Persnickles: Reading and Writing Nonsense Poems

by Blake Hoena, Catherine Ipcizade, Simon Smith (Illustrator), Cristian Bernardini (Illustrator), Tou Xiong (Illustrator)

Overview

What’s a persnickle? And why is it floofing? Shouldn't it be flurfing, blurfing, or slurfing? This book celebrates all sorts of silly, nonsensical stuff. And it gives you the keys you’ll need to unlock your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479521982
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Poet in You
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)
Lexile:	720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

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Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where he wrote stories about robots conquering the moon and trolls lumbering around the woods behind his parents house. He now lives in Minnesota and enjoys writing about fun things like history, space aliens, and superheroes. Blake has written more than fifty chapter books and dozens of graphic novels for children.

I've been working as a freelance illustrator for about 14 years now - before that I was a primary school teacher, and so you won't be surprised to hear that I've done a lot of work for educational publishers. He was born in Leicester in 1966, and has lived in various places since - Loughborough, Maidstone, Oxford and Thame. And he's currently resident in north Leeds with his wife Sue and their sons Eddie and Jonah.

Table of Contents

Poems — Practice it! — Write it!

Interviews

Introductions to writing poetry