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Kalli Dakos

Kalli Dakos

Kalli Dakos

Kalli Dakos is an elementary school reading specialist who has written many books,including Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi, and two illustrated by G. Brian Karas: Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Pœms About School and þe Children's Choice Award-winning book If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Pœms About School. Kalli visits schools all over þe United States and Canada to talk to students. She also gives teacher workshops. She lives in Ottowa, Canada ,and Sterling, Virginia. You can learn more about Kalli at www.kallidakos.com.

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If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand will be released on January 25, 2011 in eBook
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If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand is now available in eBook
Jan 25, 2011
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! has won an award
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! has won an award
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! has won an award
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! has won an award
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! has won an award
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! will be released on June 23, 2008 in eBook
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Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! will be released on June 23, 2008 in eBook
Jun 23, 2008
Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! will be released on June 23, 2008 in eBook
Jun 23, 2008
Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! will be released on June 23, 2008 in eBook
Jun 23, 2008
Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! will be released on June 23, 2008 in eBook
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Put Your Eyes Up Here will be released on June 20, 2006 in Trade Paperback
Jun 20, 2006
Put Your Eyes Up Here is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 20, 2006

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Librarian Preview: Albert Whitman and Company (Fall 2011)
School Library Journal, June 23, 2011
...source of humor and creativity.  A Funeral in the Bathroom and Other School Bathroom Poems is by Kalli Dakos, illustrated by Mark Beech by way of Quentin Blake.  The book contains all funny school bathroom poems all the time, with one or two of a...
Obama says testing makes schools boring
Washington Examiner, March 29, 2011
...Arnold Lobel (Ages 9-12) 3. If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School by Kalli Dakos and G. Brian Karas (Ages 4-8) 4. Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost by Gary Schmidt and Henri Sorensen (Ages 9-12) 5. Poetry Matters: Writing...
POETRY FRIDAY- A FUNERAL IN THE BATHROOM- KALLI DAKOS
Carol's Corner, September 23, 2011
...create art galleries or anatomy lessonson bathroom walls with a single half-broken red crayon…And now children's poet Kalli Dakos has written an entire book of bathroom poems!Some of the poems are silly…"Meet Me in the Bathroom"Meet me in the...
Librarian Preview: Albert Whitman and Company (Fall 2011)
A Fuse #8 Production, June 23, 2011
...source of humor and creativity.  A Funeral in the Bathroom and Other School Bathroom Poems is by Kalli Dakos, illustrated by Mark Beech by way of Quentin Blake.  The book contains all funny school bathroom poems all the time, with one or two of a...