Contents

Introduction: Hello

My Father’s Underwear

Writing Tip #1

My Mother’s Rules

Writing Tip #2

My Baby Brother

Writing Tip #3

Performing Bananas and Flying Hot Dogs

Writing Tip #4

More Bananas

Writing Tip #5

My Teddy Bear

Writing Tip #6

Meat Loaf and Turkey

Writing Tip #7

An Awful, Awful Meal

Writing Tip #8

There’s Something About Pigs

Writing Tip #9

The Bogeyman

Writing Tip #10

It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme

Writing Tip #11

Written in Concrete

Writing Tip #12

Worms and Worse

Writing Tip #13

Writing Tip #14

My Mother’s Singing

Writing Tip #15

The Sounds of Words

Writing Tip #16

A Boneless Chicken

Writing Tip #17

A Pizza the Size of the Sun

Writing Tip #18

Would You Mind Repeating That?

Writing Tip #19

Begin at the End

Writing Tip #20

Poemstarts to Get You Started

Glossary

Index to Poems

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher