The Armpit of Doom: Funny Poems for Kids (Kenn Nesbitt's Hilarious Children's Poems)

Kenn Nesbitt's new book is easily one of the best collections of humorous poetry for children produced in the last ten years. The author flexes his pen and wit to create seventy clever rhymes which will doubtlessly be enjoyed by your whole family; especially your "giftedly mental" kids.Many of the poems are laugh-out-loud funny. In Armpit of Doom, Kenn Nesbitt employs the best of his signature style of clever puns, plays on words, and a light salting of gross-out humor without shying away from more advanced vocabulary, masterful alliteration and assonance, and all-around skilled poetrycraft. Sure to be enjoyed reading after reading, this is a must-have addition to your home library!

It's real funny and I really like it. I really extremely like it because it keep me reading. Most of them were to long so I read the short ones.

I was told this was a very funny book by my granddaughters

Daughter loved this book

My son needed to memorize a poem for 3rd grade and this book was our answer. Lots of laughter was heard from his room as he was reading this book. Not bathroom humor but funny poems that sure hit the 8 year old funny bone.

Cute book of poems.

funny poems that made me laugh a lot :-)

I rated it a 5 I really liked it I would recommend it for ages 5 to 11 years old

A great variety of different themed rhymes. They always have a good punchline ending on a fun note. Extremely prolific poet with ideas.

Best collection of short poems for kids and jolly adults alike. It succeeds in bringing joy to the reader.

Has fun poems my kids from 3 - 11 enjoy.

Really funny poems. My son loves them.

There are very few poets who can give your chuckle muscles a thorough workout quite like Kenn Nesbitt. In `The Armpit of Doom' this modern master of mirth (and heir apparent to Jack Prelutsky) delivers a fun- and pun-packed collection of verses that is guaranteed to register right at the top of any giggle-o-meter. Always witty, often clever and rarely, if ever, predictable, these are poems chock-a-block with laughs a-plenty and punch lines that always land bang smack in the middle of the funny bone.So-called "light verse" often gets a bad name, especially amongst those - the anti-wacky brigade - who consider the purity of poetry to be tainted by its presence within the genre. But it is too quickly dismissed. True, there are many poems purporting to be so, which simply aren't that funny; poems that are so light (or, rather, slight) they float away of their accord and barely register. But "light" doesn't necessarily mean throwaway; genuinely funny poems still have to be well-crafted, and there is a great art to making a fellow human laugh. Nobody practices that art better than Kenn Nesbitt.Children like to laugh. They need to laugh. You only have to look at America to see who the two best selling children's poets of all time are: Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein. Both writers of predominantly humorous verse; both writers whose work has stood the test of time. More recently, Kenn Nesbitt has taken over the reins and his verses - as with Prelutsky's and Silverstein's - are brimful of original ideas, playful, inventive and often very wordy. There is nothing necessarily "light" about them. Above all, though, they're extremely funny. But don't take my word for it; buy a copy of `The Armpit of Doom' and see for yourself!