<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:3692d5d8-2018-41b3-b929-a87435edd15f" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><hr/> <p class="first"><img alt="[Image]" class="art" id="fig_GooneyBirdIsSoAbsurd-5" src="images/GooneyBirdIsSoAbsurd-5.jpg" width="100%"/></p> <p class="center">Illustrated by Middy Thomas</p> <p class="center">H<span style="font-size: smaller">OUGHTON</span> M<span style="font-size: smaller">IFFLIN</span> B<span style="font-size: smaller">OOKS FOR</span> C<span style="font-size: smaller">HILDREN</span><br/> H<span style="font-size: smaller">OUGHTON</span> M<span style="font-size: smaller">IFFLIN</span> H<span style="font-size: smaller">ARCOURT</span><br/> B<span style="font-size: smaller">OSTON</span> 2009</p> <hr/> <p class="center">Copyright © 2009 by Lois Lowry<a id="piv"/> </p> <p class="center">Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Middy Thomas</p> <p class="center">All rights reserved. For information about permission<br/> to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions,<br/> Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South,<br/> New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="center">Houghton Mifflin Books for Children is an imprint of<br/> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.</p> <p class="center"><a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com">www.hmhbooks.com</a></p> <p class="center">The text of this book is set in Garamond MT.</p> <p class="center"><em>Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data</em></p> <p class="center">Lowry, Lois.<br/> Gooney Bird is so absurd / by Lois Lowry.<br/> p. cm.<br/> Summary: Mrs. Pidgeon's second-grade class studies<br/> poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse,<br/> and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized<br/> by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.<br/> ISBN 978-0-547-11967-0<br/> [1. Poetry—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.<br/> PZ7.L9673Goi 2002<br/> [Fic]—dc22<br/> 2007047738</p> <p class="center">Manufactured in the United States of America</p> <p class="center">MV 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3</p> <hr/> <blockquote> <p class="center"><em>For Emilia Jansson</em><a id="pv"/> </p> </blockquote> </body> </html>