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Pub. Apple Pie Publications - ISBN 1 898376 07 7

OUT OF PRINT


This book was released in 1997.  Like all David's books the title is also the title of one of the poems in the collection, and the cover design was chosen to reflect the fact that there were a number of food poems in the book.  The single most popular poem in this collection has to be Friday Night Fast Food Trolley Dash, with its trolley pushing, finger wagging chorus.

Interesting Book Fact 1:  Anne Hodgkiss got the idea for the full page illustration to the tiltle poem from the paintings of heads by the 15th century italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Interesting Book Fact 2: 
David made up all the names in The Rhyming Primary School except one.  While all of the rhyming characters probably exist somewhere, the only person David knows to be real is Linda Pinder who was - and probably still is - an infant teacher!


OLD?  MY DAD?

 

He’s so old
right?
he’s prehistoric
we call him Our-Dad-The-Dinosaur
our kid says he’s
Iguana-dad 

and he’s always watching the footie on Sky
yeah?
so then we call him
Dad the Telly-dactyl 

till he starts to nod off
you know?
and we say
see, see
there’s our dad
the Diplo-dope-us 

and when he’s fast asleep 
get this
he’s the
Bronto-snore-us Dad 

then he’ll wake up
start scratching, rubbing his face
and mum always says
‘Watch out everyone
here comes your father
Tyrannosaurus Wreck.’ 

Old? My Dad? 

He’s almost
extinct.

 

 

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