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MISSING SUBJECT LINE – 5 96/105 Mechanics - 4 Lansky, Bruce, editor. PoetryIf Kids Ruled The School More Kids’ Favorite Funny School Poems. Minnesota: Meadowbrook Press, 2004. Summary: This is a hilarious collection of poems about what happens in school and at home by covering wild and wacky topics such as bringing skunks to show-and-tell, falling asleep at your desk, ripping your pants on the playground, counting sheep and teachers to get to sleep, homework, tests, school lunches, detention, food fights, show and tell, and pet days. Selected poems: Poem Type Some Bedtime Advice Free verse Sleep Tricks Free verse The Bus List poem The Back of the Bus Free verse Falling Asleep In Class Free verse ? Evaluation: The selections in this anthology are from several different writers but are chosen from Robert Lansky. The selections are peppy, animated, spirited, cheerful, lively, and optimistic. The poems in this hilarious selection capture sensory images of sight, hearing, and touching. It describes the shrill sound of students shrieking and eardrums swelling. It describes all the commotion on the bus and the descriptive analogy of the poem makes you feel like you are actually on “The Back of the Bus”. The poem about falling asleep in class is so true in comparison to the actual experience. The writer describes having paper stuck to your face from too much drool and having an indentations in your face from your three ring binder. The hilarious poems flow naturally and rhythmically throughout the entire collection. The poems are so simple to read using simple verbiage and language, yet they are rich in humor and meaning. The smallest child could be read these poems and still capture the experiences from the easy to understand writing. The selections are so descriptive so anyone could capture the experiences you feel in going to sleep, being in school, and being on the bus. The funny illustrations put the reader right there in the setting of th