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Learn how to write nursery rhymes, limericks, list poems, and more! Fill-in-the-blank poems,
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Autobiography
Read Bruce Lansky's autobiography and see if you can spot all the fibs!


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Ask the Poet

Read interviews with your
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your own questions!

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about the Most Important Job

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about Poetry & Kids

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Authors In Schools
Authors In Schools
Hey teachers, learn how to invite
your students' favorite poets to your
school, including Bruce Lansky,
Kenn Nesbitt, Ted Scheu, Bill Dodds,
Robert Pottle, Charles Ghigna,
Eric Ode, and others.


   
   
 

Scrambled

  


 

by Bruce Lansky

  


 
 
  I climbed up the door and
I opened the stairs.
I said my pajamas
and buttoned my prayers.

I turned off the covers
and pulled up the light.
I’m all scrambled up since
she kissed me last night.

 

Text © Bruce Lansky, reprinted from My Dog Ate My Homework published by Meadowbrook Press. Illustration © Stephen Carpenter. Any copying or use of this poem or illustration without consent is unlawful.

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