Author: Andrea Perry
Illustrator: Alan Snow
Genre: Poetry
Awards: None
Grade(s): 1-4
Summary: The Snack Smasher and Other Reasons Why it's Not my Fault is a collection of silly and, at times, realistic poems. The poems in this book all concentrate around realistic daily frustrations we all encounter, but proves that these frustrations only happen because of some sort of villain coming in to wreck havoc. One of the poems in this collection is called The Scary-Hair Fairy and it describes why people's hair never seems to cooperate when it's picture day. Andrea Perry writes that it must be some sort of "scary-hair fairy" that comes in the middle of the night to "straighten your curls," "give you six cowlicks," and, in general, "make hair misbehave." Another of Perry's poems in this collection is Snorist. This poem tries to make sense of why fathers seem to snore so loudly. She describes that the only explanation for this is the Snorist, who is a man that sneaks into a father's nose to play loud instruments.
My Thoughts: I absolutely love this collection of poems!! They are silly, yet engaging and are sure to give children a sense of imagination. This book will be a great addition to my classroom library. I plan to use it to inspire my students' imagination in hopes of them writing their own poem describing an explanation of an everyday frustration, such as why you only end up with one sock missing.
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