Overload
Tom Skinner
language
(Pink Hippo Press, Feb. 3, 2015)
What if your kids begged to play with words and ideas - because it was so fun?âTom is a magician with words, a sorcerer with challenging ideas, and an all around excellent poet.â Grady Harp, Hall of Fame and Amazon Top 100 ReviewerKids and teens love ideas from left field, a play on words that makes them giggle and stretches their creative language skills.'Skinnerâs quirky sense of humor shines throughout the book and is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.â Call it what you will this quick ânâ quirky combination of poetry, youthful humor, silly phrases, puns and sketches is designed to challenge developing brains to look at language â and life â from a whole new perspective.âThe authorâs note after each poem is unique and hilarious.â Overload contains a diverse collection of playful comments and musings about Moses, poetry, wizards, feelings, cowboys and monkeys.âThe author has kept the language very simple and used oodles of humour to generate and maintain reader interest.âEncourage the young readers in your life to let loose with mad word associations, silly syllables and gormless gigglesâŚin the bean bag with you, the car, or anywhere at all.âI absolutely loved this book. Wish I could have given it more than five stars!âAs a parent or teacher, you have probably already had some fun together with word association, punning, and experimentation via various forms of literature.âI recommend this to children who are new to poetry.âEight zappy illustrated one page stories in crisp and quirky verse for elastic fantastic readers (ages 8-15) who can handle a bit of high voltage wordplay!âI wasn't sure I was going to like it. In fact, I was quite sure I wasn't going to like it. But the book took me by surprise!â Buy Overload to have some unexpected fun with verse today!âHe creates poems that challenge young brains to inspect language and get a fresh vista of what words are all about.âNote: Overload is the seventh book in the Get Your Wordsworth series which can be read in any order. Books 1-6 are available as a box set for $4.99 (Get Your Wordsworth, Volume 1). The other books are Einstein's Cat, Pavlov's Dog, It's Slapstick, Plain Crazy, Too Much TV and Tractor Gate.âRecommended series.âWhat words would you, as a modern muse, use to describe this series? Itâs very hard to describe this series until you read it because Get Your Wordsworth is (as far as I can tell) a new hybrid model of illustrated poetry-prose which combines an old art form with a few modern alchemic twists and tweaks. It is these hitherto unseen and highly unorthodox bolt-ons (newspaper style title and sub-title, an original hand-drawn high quality sketch for each story plus a personal author note) which I believe give rise to this far more accessible (though admittedly less technical) twenty first century verse.Overall, I call these ever so artful one page hodgepodges, medleys, melanges or potpourris fast blasts! I'm sure you will have your own version. Other fast blast type descriptors include...casual poetry-prosepoetry-prose fusionlaugh now, think later versemicro poetry-proseillustrated micro fictionpoetry-prose mash-uprap trapsone minute super shortsplayful poetrycheeky poetry chunkslittle book of laughs