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If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems about School Audiobook
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This is a book for kids who wish they were jumping in leaf piles and climbing trees instead of learning their multiplication tables. It's for kids who worry that they'll never make it out of third grade, or that the other kids will make fun of them, or that their best will never be good enough. Messy desks, forgotten homework, embarrassing hiccups, favorite teachers-they're all here in these silly, sad, and funny poems. Kalli Dakos blends clever wit and insight with her experience as a former elementary reading specialist to make poetry fun and accessible to young children. The voices of three unique and talented narrators capture that school-related fun, fantasy, and fear that never truly ends for anyone who has ever lived the school experience.
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"This book is poems about school some of them are funny and some of them are boring. It is a fast read I borrowed it from Mrs. B a while ago and I for got about it and I started reading it in supervised study and finished it then. I think this is great and fun."
— Morgan (4 out of 5 stars)
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand Listener Reviews
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" 2 poems I absolutely adored, others I felt were just too long and should have been shorter. I really enjoyed this funny, sometimes rhyming book. "
— Monique, 10/15/2012 -
" I recommend this book to all readers.I hoenstly really like this book. "
— Camden.cota11-12, 6/13/2012 -
" I've had this book for over 15 years, it it is starting to fall apart. Sometimes I will read one of the poems to my class, and sometimes just to myself, it always provides comic relief. I had the second book by this author but it was stolen. I LOVE THIS BOOK! "
— Cynthia, 4/1/2012 -
" Collection of school related poetry. Simple black and white illustrations appear on most pages. "
— Mrs, 9/9/2011 -
" This was a horrible poem book. Probably the worst poems I have ever read. I wouldn't even consider them poems, but dumb stories in the shape of a poem. "
— Megan, 4/21/2011 -
" Awesome book, really funny and easy to understand. "
— Kelly, 1/26/2011 -
" This was a horrible poem book. Probably the worst poems I have ever read. I wouldn't even consider them poems, but dumb stories in the shape of a poem. "
— Megan, 4/16/2010
About the Narrators
Christina Moore is an actress and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. As an actress, she is best known for her roles in the television series That ’70s Show, Hawthorne, and 90210. She is a founding member of Bitches Funny, an all-female sketch group that has performed in New York City and Los Angeles.
Jeff Woodman is an actor and narrator. He is a winner of the prestigious Audie Award and a six-time finalist. He has received twenty Earphones Awards and was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics, as well as one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. As an actor, he originated the title role in Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S. F. Critics’ Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby.
John McDonough, one of AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voices, has narrated dozens of audiobooks, and won eleven Earphones Awards. He is known for his narrations of children’s books, including Robert McCloskey’s Centerburg Tales and Albert Marrin’s Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Outside of his audiobook work, he has starred in a revival of Captain Kangaroo on the Fox Network.
Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.