{"id":14792,"date":"2025-04-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14792"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:29:32","slug":"y-is-a-years-worth-of-funny-poems-a-whale-of-a-time-selected-by-lou-peacock-art-by-matt-hunt-poetry-picturebook-atoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14792","title":{"rendered":"Y is a year’s worth of funny poems: A WHALE OF A TIME, selected by Lou Peacock, art by Matt Hunt (Poetry picturebook) #AtoZ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Make every day more humorous as you spend a year with funny poems from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are very short:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

even among the insects of this world,
some are good at singing,
some bad
by Kobayashi Issa, translated by R.H. Blyth (August 8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Others are a bit longer, like Jack Prelutsky’s classic “The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven” on November 27th among a cluster of fall food feasting poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every double-page spread features subject-related poems such as June 26-28’s poems “Spinach”, “I Eat My Peas With Honey”, and “Eat Your Veg”, with a vivid illustration connecting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the poem titles themselves invite us to enjoy reading them – “Banananananananana” (August 2) and “Hippopotamouse” (Sept. 30) and “Jamaican Summers” (June 12) and “The Fork Tree” (Oct.7) and “Lunchbox Love Note” (on Feb. 14, of course)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy to reread some of my favorites, like “Eletelephony”, by Laura E. Richards (for Feb. 25) which begins
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant –
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vibrantly illustrated oversize volume includes an index of poets, an index of poems, and the ever-helpful index of first lines. Find related learning resources on the publisher’s page: https:\/\/nosycrow.us\/product\/a-whale-of-a-time\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite funny poem?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: A Whale of a Time: a Funny Poem For Each Day of the Year \/ selected by Lou Peacock, illustrated by Matt Hunt. Nosy Crow, 2023. [editor site https:\/\/nosycrow.us\/contributor\/lou-peacock\/<\/a>] [illustrator site https:\/\/matthuntillustration.com\/<\/a>] [publisher site https:\/\/nosycrow.us\/product\/a-whale-of-a-time\/<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher, via Publisher Spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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