Books with author Ted Scheu

Learn your ZBCs! Discover the truth about Bellysmurps! Bring a real bear to Teddy Bear Day! (Hey, it?s just another normal day at school!) Yep, all the secrets of life in the classroom are hilariously revealed in this fun and honest collection of 59 school poems?written especially for and about kids in Grades K to 3. These verses all happily tumbled out of the ?rhymy? mind of renowned children?s poet (and former kid and teacher) Ted Scheu, and are ready for you to enjoy right now! And Peter Lourie?s ?wow? photographs are d to knock your smock off! Ted Scheu continues to be the top children?s poet when it comes to capturing, in humorous rhyming verse, the true ?soul? of the school-age child. Written in the first person, Scheu?s poems express all the joys and concerns, the rhythms and the twists, the truths and the imaginings of children. In this collection, he has turned his voice to slightly younger-aged kids, (mostly K-3) as they navigate the halls of school each day. This co

Here they are! A freshly-picked collection of 90 (Ninety!) of US children's poet Ted Scheu’s ‘funnest’ and most ‘heartful’ poems for kids generously fill these delicious pages, alongside stunning, heart-tickling photos of Vermont kids from the camera of Peter Lourie. Brimming with honesty and humor, this super-size prize holds many of Ted’s best verses about school and home, and everywhere in between. All from one of the galaxy’s top poets for children. Take a big bite, and enjoy! Here’s what J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate (2011-2013) and award-winning children’s author had to say about Getting the Best of Me: “Ted Scheu resurrects his patented wackiness with poems about second-grade kisses, gold medals, funny bones, recycling, even his Great-Aunt Agnes. Predictable mischief abounds. In rollicking ballad verse, Getting the Best of Me gets the best of all of us.!” And more praise from Ken Nesbitt, current U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate: “It’s such a joy to read Ted Scheu’s poems. I mean that literally. There is so much JOY on every page of this book that you can’t help but smile the whole way through!”

Freeze your mother! Learn new words from your dad! Trade your brother! Help your sister share her secrets! From the kid-like brain of one of the world's funniest poets for children, here's a family-full of dreams, screams, groans, and giggles. The fresh, honest voices lurking within these poems combine with eye-popping Peter Lourie photographs to endlessly tickle your gigglebone. You'll zoom through this collection before your mother even thaws!