sail in a sieve, with this last bit of summer nonsense, back to the Oak Park Public Library! using inspiration from “Dr. Knickerbocker and Other Rhymes”, a Canadian collection of over 100 rhymes, riddles, jump rope rhymes, taunts, tongue twisters and nonsense verse, selected by David Booth, illustrated by Maryann Kovalski, the kids at the library wrote some great tongue twisters…try saying them faster than your friends!
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#19 – Math Nonsense
sail in a sieve with twin 8 year old hosts Luke and Oliver….or is it Oliver and Luke?! to the land of Math Nonsense! They share some crazy math jokes and wacky math verse from Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s book “Math Curse”. Does tunafish + tunafish = fournafish?!
Talking Nonsense!
Jonathan Messinger interviewed me! about nonsense! imagine that! here is a lot of why-o-why about me-o-my! “Talking Nonsense with Creator Pamela Rogers”
#18 – Jokes at the Library
sail in a sieve for jokes at the library! the Oak Park Public Library invited Buttons & Figs in for a podcast petting zoo, where families could listen together to other great podcasts for kids….and to record a few jokes from Michael Dahl’s joke books. Check them out! be sure to sign up for summer reading at a Public Library near you!
#18 – explore – discover more podcasts
here’s a downloadable brochure with just a few great kids’ podcasts and some help to get you listening today! listening also counts toward summer reading! visit your library!
check out even more great podcasts @ app.kidslisten.org
#17 – Crazy Cars
rev up that sieve and #hittheroad with the buttons & figs kids as they share “Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems” by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, pictures by Jeremy Holmes. Can you design a crazy nonsense car of your own?!