What's the Weather Inside?

Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and Sunday's sundaes!

New York Times bestselling author Karma Wilson and renowned New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt have created a brilliantly entertaining poetry collection sure to be a source of pleasure and inspiration to kids everywhere.

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What's the Weather Inside?

Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and Sunday's sundaes!

New York Times bestselling author Karma Wilson and renowned New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt have created a brilliantly entertaining poetry collection sure to be a source of pleasure and inspiration to kids everywhere.

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What's the Weather Inside?

What's the Weather Inside?

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Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and Sunday's sundaes!

New York Times bestselling author Karma Wilson and renowned New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt have created a brilliantly entertaining poetry collection sure to be a source of pleasure and inspiration to kids everywhere.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781416900924
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date: 03/10/2009
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Karma Wilson is the bestselling author of several picture books, including the Bear Books series, Where Is Home, Little Pip?, and A Dog Named Doug. Karma lives in Montana.

Barry Blitt’s illustrations have appeared on more than eighty New Yorker covers and have also graced the pages of The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly. He is the illustrator of Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) by Geoffrey Koske and The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn by Robert Burleigh, as well as other picture books. He lives in Roxbury, Connecticut.

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What's the Weather Inside?

What's the weather like inside?
What's the forecast say?
Is that a breeze of memory blown in from yesterday?
Has a fog of doubt rolled in upon the winds of change?
Or floods of creativity with just a chance of strange?
A jolt of anger followed by the thunder of despair?
A lilt of laughter floating on a future bright and fair?
What's the weather like inside?
Tune in and take a look.
Is that a brainstorm coming on?
Curl up and write a book.

I dare Ya

If you think poems are stupid and poetry's a bore,
if every poem you've ever read has almost made you snore,
and if you're sure this book's the same as all you've read before...
I dare ya, yes, I dare ya: Turn the page.

Miss Muffet's Revenge

Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating a yogurt parfait.
Along came a spider,
who sat down beside her.
She squished it and flicked it away.

What Your Dog Might Be Thinking

I love to pee on the flower bed.
I love to eat things smelly and dead.
I love the smell of putridness.
I love to frolic in rottenness.
I love to bury my bones in a hole.
I love to drink from the toilet bowl.
I love to munch what the garbage man misses.
I love to give my people kisses. SLURP!

What Your Cat Might Be Thinking

I'm the center of the universe.
I'm all-out royalty.
There really isn't anyone who's near as good as me.
And everything that's ever done is done just for my bidding.
And I shall banish anyone I do not deem befitting.
Laps were made to be my throne,
and hands were made to pet me.
And anything I want to do,
of course, you have to let me.
And if you open up a book,
then that's to lay my head on.
And if you put your sweater down,
well, that's for me to shed on.
And if you plant a pretty plant,
well, that's for me to chew.
And if you bring a puppy home,
well, that's the end of you.

What Your Hamster Might Be Thinking

RUN RUN RUN RUN!
Through the kitchen down the hall
RUN RUN RUN RUN!
Must...escape...the...
plastic...ball...

Naps

I don't like naps.
In fact, I hate 'em . .
. unless my baby brother takes 'em.

Changing Time

It's changing time for brother.
Pew.
It's time to change that diaper.
Ew.
Dirty, stinky, icky poo.
It's changing time again.

Somebody change him now!
Who?
Will someone change my brother?
You?
Me? Gee, it's not so bad.
It's not quite changing time.
Whew!

Alligator Purse

"Oh, dahling, don't you love my purse?
It's genuine alligator."
She said that just this morning,
but then a little later she reached inside for something and it ate her.

Inside a Tornado

I wonder what it might be like inside a big tornado.
Floating free, like Dorothy,
you'd ride the rushing flow.
Twirling, swirling, whirling,
maybe shouting as you go...
"HELP! I DO NOT WANT TO BE INSIDE THIS BIG TORNADO!" Text copyright © 2009 by Karma Wilson

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