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J. Patrick Lewis' Once Upon A Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses (0763618373, $16.99) provides over twenty poems which tell of untimely deaths, from a bully to a food critic The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a writer who analyses food or restaurants and then publishes the results of their findings.  and a soccer player. If it sounds deadly and dark, it isn't: the poems vary in style but all include more than a touch of humor. Add Simon Bartram's fun drawings and you have unusual appeal to verses which are strikingly different. Jessica Spanyol's Go Bugs Go! (0763630-551, $15.99) tells of bugs who like driving all kinds of vehicles. Kids are invited to come along on a rollicking rol·lick·ing  
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Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration.



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, zany set of rides, from bugs crashing juice trucks and trains to triplets who bash into girl bugs with super steam-powered propeller trains. A zany, fun adventure invites kids to enjoy. Michael Foreman's Mia's Story: A Sketchbook Of Hopes & Dreams (07636-30632, $15.99) tells of a girl who lives in a garbage dump between the big city and the mountains. Her story is recounted by a friend in a gentle tale that blends handwritten hand·write  
tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes
To write by hand.



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 notes and illustrations with the story of Mia's village life, lost pet, and more. Jamie Harper's Miss Mingo And The First Day Of School (0763624101, $15.99) tells of a flashy flamingo teacher who invites everyone to share something special. Since her class is filled with strange animal students, from an elephant to a centipede centipede, common name for members of a single class, Chilopoda, of the phylum Arthropoda. Centipedes are the most familiar of the myriapodous arthropods, which consist of five groups of arthropods that had a separate origin from other arthropods.  and an octopus, everyone has something to share that is unique in this hilarious tale of differences.
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Title Annotation:Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses; Go Bugs Go!; Mia's Story: A Sketchbook of Hopes and Dreams; Miss Mingo and the First Day of School
Publication:Children's Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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