Book Review: Please Bury Me in the Library

Please Bury Me in the Library 

Written by J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by Kyle M. Stone 
Published April 1, 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Poetry
Ages: 6+, 32 pages 
 

Please Bury me in the Library is a collection of short poems about the joys of reading. The poems are humorous and are sure to make you smile. There are a total of sixteen poems. Here are few poems from the book:

Please Bury Me in the Library: 

Please bury me in the library
In the clean, well-lighted stacks
Of Novels, History, Poetry, 
Right next to the Paperbacks, 
 
Where the Kids’ Books dance
With True Romance
And the Dictionary dozes. 
Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses. 
 
Way back by a rack of Magazines, 
I won’t be sad too often, 
If they bury me in the library
With Bookworms in my coffin. 
 
A Classic 
 
A children’s book is a classic 
If at six, excitedly
You read it to another kid 
Who just turned sixty-three. 
 
Flea-ting Fame
 
Did you ever hear of the tiny book 
By the famous Otto the Flea, 
A fly-by-night, 
Who dared to write
His Ottobiography? 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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