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Boy Soup: When Giant Caught Cold

When Giant wakes up with a big hurting head and a sore raspy throat, he finds the cure is a bowl of Boy Soup! Giant captures five boys and Kate, who all protest his plan. But Kate soon comes up with her own remedy and convinces the Giant that the soup should be made, not of boys, but by boys.
Dirty Dog Boogie

Read them alone
Or read them aloud.
    Read them to your Mumsy or
    recite them to a crowd.
        Change the words,
        Arrange the words,
        Or rearrange the beat.
            Know a poem?
            Show it off
            To everyone you meet.
Loris Lesynski's popular book of poems is newly released in full color!
Poetry is cause for celebration! It needs to be shared, shouted out, changed, rearranged, and most of all -- enjoyed!
Celebrated author and illustrator Loris Lesynski's first book of 28 original poems spills over with her fun-filled approach to poetry. This book is a celebration of the joy of language.
Loris's poetry is an invitation to be irreverent, observant, witty, expressive, and creative. She demonstrates how much fun poetry, and everyday life, can be. Poem themes range from mosquitoes to sock fluff to fretting mothers and monkey wallpaper-things that kids are really interested in.
Cabbagehead

Thirty new poems from the author of Dirty Dog Boogie and Nothing Beats a Pizza!
In her much-anticipated third collection of poetry, celebrated author Loris Lesynski explores the often frustrating ways in which our brains work. With her usual wit and irreverence, Loris presents jazzy, fun poems that speak to all of us. Who hasn't been perplexed by spelling or chased in the night by an idea that won't go away?
Sometimes I'm a genius.
Sometimes I'm a whiz.
Sometimes I's a cabbagehead
But even when I is,
Dazzling dreams are going on,
New ideas rock,
My mind is always mine
And knows
I'll listen to it talk.
Once again, Loris demonstrates how much fun poetry, and everyday life, can be! Her poetry begs to be read out loud, and children and adults will find themselves unable to resist snapping their fingers and chanting along!
(200402)
Nothing Beats a Pizza

Nothing beats a pizza
when you're in a pizza mood
because a pizza isn't anything
like any other food.

The opening refrain of Nothing Beats A Pizza is catchy and fun, just like all 32 poems found in Loris Lesynski's new book of poety. Loris's poems are about enjoying language, rhythm, and rhyme - and, most of all, your own creativity.
These poems are meant to be said aloud and shared. They are jumping-off points that invite kids to exercise their creativity with their own versions of the poems:
Leaves were here
they left their prints
in greenish grayish brownish tints
like rubber stamps along the road
an autumn message left in code

On the page below Leaves, Loris starts kids off with: "Pizzas were here. They left their crumbs ..." This is one of many invitations for kids to experiment and see what new creations they can build.
Dancing across the pages are illustrations and poems alive with humor, exploring things that are important to a kid's world: pizza, substitute teachers, homework, moods, food, and pets.
Boy Soup

Loris Lesynski

A delicious fresh serving of a favorite soup.
When Giant wakes up with a giant cold, he turns to his home medical guide for help. The prescription? A bowl of Boy Soup. Catching the boys is easy, but what he doesn't count on is Kate. Accidentally kidnapped along with the boys, clever Kate convinces Giant that what the guide really means is a soup made by boys, not one with boys in it.
Kate and the boys proceed to concoct a particularly nasty broth:
They put in
some mud
and some thick yellow glue
and a generous dollop of dandruff shampoo.
Giant spits out the soup with a mighty blast, which carries the children to safety. The happily-ever-after ending sees Kate and the boys opening up their own restaurant (minus Boy Soup), and Giant learning a valuable lesson.
Originally published in 1996, this delightfully silly story has been a consistent favorite. Now reissued with hilarious illustrations by renowned artist Michael Martchenko, Boy Soup is sure to attract a whole new generation of young readers.
Zigzag: Zoems for Zindergarten

Zigzag sandwiches
zigzag lunch
zigzag bananas
in a zigzag bunch
Zigga zagga
zigga zagga
zeet
kids love zomething
good to eat!
Celebrated word whiz Loris Lesynski is back with a poetry collection for her youngest fans. After hundreds of school visits, Loris Lesynski knows that kindergarten kids have their own kind of wit. Too old for nursery rhymes and too young for irony, kindergarteners crave a pure silliness that Zigzag supplies by the zillions!
Bursting with zaniness, these poems focus on the pleasure of sound and the rhythm of language, and each contains an inherent invitation to join in. Catchy rhymes like "Anything's a Drum Drum" and "TEE HEE HEE" prove that "knees can be a drum drum/both of them a fun drum" and encourage readers and listeners to "sing and shout/ time to let the noises OUT." With rhymes about subjects as simple and familiar as school, food and even walking, Zigzag demonstrates how much fun poetry, and everyday life, can be.
(200504)
I Did It Because...: How a Poem Happens

Loris Lesynski
Favorite poems and how they happened, by a celebrated wordsmith.
Got a passion for poetry? Are you primed to rhyme? Word whiz Loris Lesynski shows you how it's done in this unique collection that blends "best of" with "how to." Inside you'll find over 30 Lesynski favorites alongside advice for kids on creating poems.
In nine snappy sections, Lesynski features different ways in which a poem can take shape. "Dirty Dog Boogie" came from a catchy beat. Other ideas emerged from playing with words, as in "Mozza Mozza." Further sections include:
- Preparing for Poems -- warm-ups for the mouth and the brain
- Me Me Me Me -- rhymes that start with you
- What I'd Like to Know -- poems that pose questions
- How Illustrations Happen -- providing pictures for poems
- Writning Bolts -- further activities for aspiring rhymers.
Bursting with Michael Martchenko's vivid illustrations and packed with over 20 pages of all new material by Lesynski, I Did It Because... is a playground of poetry where readers are invited to play along.
(2007)
Gatomagico

Arabelle and her cat, Izzy, move into the Witches' Retirement Home, but everyone keeps tripping over Izzy, so he'll have to go. He coaxes the witches into scraping together leftover magic to cast a spell and give him a safer home -- on the ceiling! Told entirely in rollicking verse.
Rocksy

Roxanne was a lovely child...
But clumsy as an ox --
and every time she played, she got
a dozen nicks and knocks.
"OUCH!" is what they heard her say
a hundred times a day.
"OUCH!"
  and "OW!"
    and "OOPS!" out loud
     no matter what they'd play.
And so Roxanne wishes out loud that she were made of stone so she wouldn't always get hurt. From deep within the forest comes "Ka-PLICKety, zickety zock," and sure enough Roxanne turns into rock. At first she relishes her new-found freedom to jump and skip and run. But as her bicycle tires go flat beneath her solid, heavy frame, and her stony eyes spill only pebble tears, Rocksy regrets her careless wish.
Rolled back to the Magic Woods where she made that first fateful wish, Rocksy calls on the Wise Old Woman to change her back. With her special charms the Wise Old Woman reverses the trick, then comes up with a brilliant new plan. With a flick of the wrist she changes herself into the Playground Coach.
Balance is lesson number one. Then fancy footwork, nifty flips, leaping and hopping and instant stopping. The Playground Coach shows the kids all kinds of ways to run and jump and play and fall without ever hurting at all.
Loris Lesynski creates another highly original comic tale enlivened by her trademark colorful illustrations.
Night School

Loris Lesynski

"Loris Lesynski will be joining the ranks of Lee, Prelutsky, and Silverstein. You are much needed!"
(Sam Sebesta, author and Professor Emeritus, Children's Literature, University of Washington)

Loris Lesynski is back with a hilarious new picture book, written in rhyming verse and full of fun.
Eddie likes to stay up late. Unlike other kids, he just doesn't get tired. So, what do parents do with a kid like Eddie? His parents find the perfect solution: it's off to night school instead of to bed.
At 10 p.m. a very unusual school bus arrives in front of Eddie's door, and away he goes. It is a great idea and Eddie is keen to begin, but he can't help but notice that things are a little different at this new school - a little gloomy, a little peculiar.
The students study stars and owls and werewolf howls. And are those fangs peeping out of the teacher's mouth? At recess, instead of going outside, they watch the late show on a TV in the hall. So, while everyone else he knows is snuggled in bed, Eddie is doing his schoolwork instead. The subject matter gives him the creeps, for it seems to be all about things in the dark of night. Eddie won't let it bother him, though - he is still up at half past two!
Somewhere around 4 a.m. things begin to change for our night-owl boy. Eddie's eyes are sore, his brain is fuzzy. He spends more and more time wondering when morning will come and when he can go home and go to bed. Finally it is five and the bell rings! Eddie dreads it, but he believes he will have to say the never-before-uttered words to his parents: "Let me go to bed!"
It is just Eddie's luck that his parents have missed him so much they beg him not to go off to night school again. Just before he begins to snore, he agrees to stay and do as they wish. Nowadays Eddie spends his spare time devising a school for kids like him - kids who like to stay up late into the night, but not until the first rays of sun light.
Shoe Shakes

Loris Lesynski

Wordplay with zip for the energetic preschooler.
What would happen if your shoes shook you? If they pulled you to the park and they zoomed you to the zoo? Find out in this unconventionally active celebration of feet in motion by a much-loved children's poet.
Loris Lesynski definitely knows how to get kids clapping their hands and stomping their feet. In Shoe Shakes, a collection of 10 new poems, she set her sights on preschoolers who get a kick out of wacky sounds and off-the-wall ideas. Rhythm lovers will hit the ground running with the join-in beat of "The Boot Boot Bounce." Kids will giggle at the idea of "Snowshoes" that are made from snow, and will pause to ponder "Feet Thoughts."
Complete with uproarious illustrations by Michael Martchenko and surprises on every page, Shoe Shakes is guaranteed to set toes a-tappin' and funny bones a-laughin'.
Catmagic

When the Witches' Retirement Home has a vacancy, Arabelle the witch and her cat Izzy move in and raise havoc!
The retirement home is crowded with sprightly witches: some are greenish, warty characters, some are aquamarine witches with blue warts, and some are pink with green warts! Every inch of space in the retirement home is overrun with a mishmash of the witches' patterned-and-spotted personal belongings. So, when Arabelle and her in-the-way cat Izzy move in, the witches trip and topple all over the place.
The topsy-turvy, multicolor fantastic illustrations of the outlandish Lesynski are charmingly magical.
Sopa de nino

Loris Lesynski

When Giant wakes up with a big, hurting head and a sore, raspy throat, he finds the cure is a bowl of Boy Soup! Giant captures five boys and Kate, who all protest his plan. But Kate soon comes up with her own remedy and convinces the Giant that the soup should be made, not of boys, but by boys!
Ogre Fun

Loris Lesynski

One sluggish afternoon young Gronny decides to scare up some fun for his ogre friends and family. Instead, he catches a contagious case of yawns from a deceptively safe-looking creature in a playground, and he brings them back to the ogre homestead, where no one has ever seen a yawn before. The yawns spread like crazy and inspire ogre hysterics.

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Books : Children's Books : Authors & Illustrators, A-Z : ( L ) : Lesynski, Loris

Loris Lesynski

Loris Lesynski

Loris Lesynski

Loris Lesynski

Loris Lesynski

Loris Lesynski