Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children by Barry Moser, Andrew Hudgins

2.71 AVERAGE

aml44's review

3.0
Way beyond Edward Gorey and without the charm. Bizarre and disturbing (which is just what the poet was going for I have no doubt). Nursery Rhymes about abusive parents, molestations and other traumas.

heathercottledillon's review

4.0
The tooth fairy. Moms cleaning faces with spit. Imaginary friends. Ice cream trucks. Lesbian stepmothers. These are the things of children's books (well, except maybe that last one), and some of these poems are from kids' points of view, but despite the subtitle, this is not really children's poetry. Most of the poems are funny in a dark way, and some are downright morbid. Here are the final lines of one of my favorite poems, "Kiss Grandma Goodnight":

Pucker up and kiss them
Act just like a chum
Lie that you love them
They're what you'll become

antisocial_auntie's review

1.0
Not nearly as creative as I had hoped, mostly just negative environments but not much about the kids themselves. Was expecting escapades of naughty kids irritating their parents and/or siblings but there wasn't really anything like that - most of the kids weren't bad at all so I felt sorry for them.

srwells48's review

2.0
dark funny fast-paced