Miles of Smiles Read online

  Susan D. Anderson for “Sound Off!” ©1998 by Susan D. Anderson. Used by permission of the author.

  Joyce Armor for “Before 9 a.m.” and “Things I’m Going to Do to My Brother.” ©1998 by Joyce Armor. Used by permission of the author.

  Dave Crawley for “Lunch Lines” and “My Doggy Ate My Homework.” Copyright by Dave Crawley. Used by permission of the author.

  Holly Davis for “Dinosaur Names.” ©1998 by Holly Davis. Used by permission of the author.

  Bill Dodds for “Big Mary.” ©1998 by Bill Dodds. Used by permission of the author.

  Pat Dodds for “We Went to New York City.” Copyright by Pat Dodds. Used by permission of the author.

  Willard R. Espy for “The Skateboard.” ©1982 by Willard R. Espy. Used by permission of the author.

  Betsy Franco for “The Sleepover.” ©1998 by Betsy Franco. Used by permission of the author.

  Trevor Harvey for “The Curse of the Foul-Smelling Armpit.” ©1998 by Trevor Harvey. Used by permission of the author.

  Luke Havumaki for “My Brother.” ©1998 by Luke Havumaki. Used by permission of the author.

  Joan Horton for “Hey, Ma, Something’s Under My Bed” and “Table Manners.” ©1998 by Joan Horton. Used by permission of the author.

  Ellen Jackson for “The Yuckiest Sandwich.” ©1998 by Ellen Jackson. Used by permission of the author.

  Sydnie Meltze Kleinhenz for “Powdered Sugar.” ©1998 by Sydnie Meltze Kleinhenz. Used by permission of the author.

  Linda J. Knaus for “An “Everything” Pizza” and “Empty Headed” and “Miss Veronica Blair” and “One-Shoe Willy.” ©1998 by Linda J. Knaus. Used by permission of the author.

  Helen Ksypka for “My Family of Dinosaurs” and “Professor Von Shtoot’s Wacky Inventions.” ©1998 by Helen Ksypka. Used by permission of the author.

  Bruce Lansky for “Born Embarrassed,” “Clear As Mud,” “Forgetful,” “Jack Was Nimble,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “My Baby Brother,” “My New Pet,” “My Sister’s Always on the Phone,” “My Teacher Sees Right Through Me,” “My Thumbies,” “My Violin,” “Oops!,” “School Rules,” “Star Light, Star Bright,” “The Teachers’ Show*,” “The Wrong Side of the Bed,” “Too Many Birthdays,” “What My Parents Should Know about My Brother,” “What My Parents Should Know about My Sister,” “Where My Clothes Are,” “Yankee Doodle on a Chicken” and “Yankee Doodle’s Turtle Ride.” Copyright by Bruce Lansky. Used by permission of the author.

  Kenn Nesbitt for “Food Fight,” “Kangaroos” and “Swimming Ool.” Copyright by Kenn Nesbitt. Used by permission of the author.

  Eric Ode for “A Valentine Poem” and “The Field Trip.” Copyright by Eric Ode. Used by permission of the author.

  Robert Pottle for “I Brought My Grandma’s Teeth to School.” ©2006 by Robert Pottle. Used by permission of the author.

  Jerry Rosen for “Cousin Henrietta’s Growing Something On Her Face.” ©1998 by Jerry Rosen. Used by permission of the author.

  Ted Scheu for “Mary’s Smart Lamb,” “On a Swing” and “Strongest Team.” ©2004 by Ted Scheu. Used by permission of the author.

  Robert Scotellaro for “A Balanced Diet,” “Captain Soapsuds” and “Dance Fever.” ©1998 by Robert Scotellaro. Used by permission of the author.

  Diane ZuHone Shore for “Birthday Wish.” ©1998 by Diane ZuHone Shore. Used by permission of the author.

  Bruce Lansky has been crowned “King of Giggle Poetry” by his elementary- and middle-school admirers, who helped select the hilarious poems included in this book. His popular poetry anthologies—including Kids Pick the Funniest Poems; Bad Case of the Giggles; Rolling in the Aisles; No More Homework! No More Tests!; If Kids Ruled the School; Mary Had a Little Jam; Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater; and I’ve Been Burping in the Classroom—have brought chortles, chuckles, grins, and guffaws to a whole generation of children.

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  Also from Meadowbrook Press

  Rolling in the Aisles

  Funny poems selected by more than 1,000 elementary-school students. Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Ted Scheu, Robert Pottle, and Dave Crawley all made the cut for this giggle-packed collection of rhymes.

  If Kids Ruled the School

  Guaranteed to make you giggle, grin, and guffaw, this anthology is brimming with side-splitting poetry. Touching on subjects from homework, tests and grades, show-and-tell, and falling asleep in class, to school lunches, awkward moments, bad hair, and the ups and downs experienced by every student in school.

  A Bad Case of the Giggles

  Bolt the doors and get out of earshot when kids discover this anthology of funny poems…it will leave them with “a bad case of the giggles.”

  Kids Pick the Funniest Poems

  Three hundred elementary-school kids will tell you that this book contains the funniest poems for kids—because they picked them! Not surprisingly, they chose many of the funniest poems ever written by favorites like Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Jeff Moss, and Judith Viorst (plus poems by lesser known writers that are just as funny). This book is guaranteed to please children ages 6–12!

  If Pigs Could Fly…

  A second collection of rip-roaring, side-splitting, rolling-in-the-aisles poems from Bruce Lansky that’ll make kids grin, giggle, and howl.

  We offer many more titles written to delight, inform, and entertain.

  To browse our full selection of titles, visit our website at:

  www.meadowbrookpress.com

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  The print version published as:

  Miles of smiles: a collection of laugh-out-loud poems / illustrated by Stephen Carpenter; selected by

  Bruce Lansky.

  p. cm.

  Includes index.

  Summary: Humorous poems divided into categories such as “Me,” “Parents,” “Gross Out,” and “All Mixed Up”.

  ISBN 978-0-88166-480-5 (Meadowbrook). — ISBN 978-0-689-03461-9 (Simon & Schuster)

  ISBN-13: 978-1-47676-851-9 (eBook)

  1. Children’s poetry, American. 2. Humorous poetry, American.

  [1. Humorous poetry—Collections. 2. American poetry—Collections.]

  I. Lansky, Bruce. II. Carpenter, Stephen, ill.

  PS586.3.M55 1998

  811’.07089282—dc21

  97-52095

  CIP

  AC

  Editor: Bruce Lansky

  Editorial Director: Chistine Zuchora-Walske

  Coordinating Editors: Michael Platzer, Jason Sanford, Angela Wiechmann

  Production Manager: Paul Woods

  Production Assistant: Danielle White

  Copyeditor: Jason Sanford

  © 1998, 2004, 2014 by Meadowbrook Creations

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or using any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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