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Countdown to Summer: A Poem for Every Day of the School Year

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Countdown to Summer: A Poem for Every Day of the School Year

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J. Patrick Lewis

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Ethan Long

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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July 01, 2009

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0316020893

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Whether readers love poetry, riddles, and rhymes or just like to laugh, this richly varied collection of original poems is sure to keep them coming back for more! J. Patrick Lewis's fun and accessible poetry features delightful wordplay and a variety of subjects and forms featured in a compendium that counts down from the first day of school to the last. Paired with Ethan Long's lively art, these poems will have readers wishing there were more days in the school year!

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A POEM A DAY KEEPS THE BOREDOM AWAY

June 25, 2009 (Updated: June 15, 2026)

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Reader reviewed by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, The Original H.I.R. (Historical Investigative Reporter)

If you enjoy exposing your students to poetry and youre into counting, be sure to add author J. Patrick Lewis happy book, Countdown to Summer: A Poem For Every Day of the School Year, to your classroom library.

Countdown to Summer has 180 cute, quirky, laugh-out-loud rhymes, riddles, haikus, shape-poems and the like to fit every taste. Theres Old Queen Cole (Lewis answer to Old King Cole); there are poems to eBay and to calendars and to Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog that predicts whether well have an early spring. Theres even an ode to the old woman who lives in a sneaker (who is, I suspect, first-cousin to the old woman who lived in a shoe).

Due to make its hardcover debut in July, 2009, Countdown to Summer pairs Lewis kid-inspiring poetry with the hilarious sketches of illustrator Ethan Long. Its definitely a winning combination.

So start your own count down from now until July, then grab one of these hilarious books before theyre all gone.

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