{"product_id":"roby-school-linda-chartier-9781432770594","title":"Roby School: Silly School Poems","description":"FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL\u003cbr\u003eThis year I am six years old. \u003cbr\u003eMy parents are delighted. \u003cbr\u003eToday is my first day of school, \u003cbr\u003eBut they're the ones excited\u003cbr\u003eThey're dancing around the kitchen, \u003cbr\u003eAnd I would like to know: \u003cbr\u003eAre they happy school is starting, \u003cbr\u003eOr just glad to see me go? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins this collection of witty, whimsical verse that anyone who ever covertly shot a spitball in class will love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe quirky teachers, bizarre events and embarrassing mishaps of Roby School are all wonderfully captured here with only one purpose in mind: to make children laugh and adults giggle. And they do. Chartier's tidy poems bring back the days when reading poetry was fun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My First A,\" \"Toilet Problems,\" \"Mean Mrs. Green\" and \"Ode to a Substitute\" are just some of the poems that trigger universal memories of those odd daily events in an elementary school that sometimes seemed only to have been designed to baffle young, otherwise uncomplicated minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKaren Gosselin's line drawings provide a perfect and delightful running narrative of their own for each of the amusing \"educational\" moments captured so richly here by Chartier in Roby School. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinda Chartier attended Roby School in Saugus, Massachusetts and these verses are a whimsical sojourn back to that place where students and teachers laughed, played and learned. Ms. Chartier lives in Laconia, New Hampshire, where she teaches karate and skiing and enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking...and, of course, writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKaren Gosselin lives in the wilds of New Hampshire where vacationers trample the unwary and moose wrestle cars for fun. When she's not trying to keep her daughter from pushing random buttons on her laptop, she's illustrating games and stories for other small companies. She is now creating an on-line comic with her husband, Tom, titled Chaos Express, on her site Chibikarenstudios.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Chartier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1432770594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781432770594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Linda Chartier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48458233544959,"sku":"9781432770594","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_487d0185-26cb-4111-8a13-0a41118e8a78.jpg?v=1777403151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roby-school-linda-chartier-9781432770594","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}