Bitter and Sweet,

Bon Apptit!
By: Jennifer Jones
English 414 A
Dr. Burke
February 28, 2016

Table of Contents:
Introduction.Page 3
Section 1: Never Take a Pig to Lunch
What you dont know about food..Page 4
Spaghetti! Spaghetti! ....Page 5
How do you make pizza grow? .Page 6
Peanut Butter and Jelly.Page 7
Never Take a Pig to Lunch.Page 8
Oodles of NoodlesPage 9
Picnics.Page 9
Section 2: Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems

Toasting MarshmallowsPage 10
Breakfast.Page 11
Section 3: A Very First Book of Poetry

Jam on Toast Page 12

Soggy GreensPage 12
Your Birthday Cake.Page 13
Sugarcake Bubble.Page 13
Ice Cream Cone. Page 13
BerriesPage 14
Section 4: Every Childs Book of Verse

Banquet Song.Page 15
Lemons.Page 15
Apples to Keep.Page 16

Bibliography.Page 17

Introduction
My anthology of poems is based around food. I picked this topic because childrens are
always eating and enjoy having sweet things to eat. There are six essential qualities that I believe
childrens poems should feature. The first quality is that a child should be able to make some sort
of connection to the poem, this will help the student remember the poem later on. The second
quality is the poem should make the child laugh. Poems for children should be upbeat and jovial.
I believe that children will enjoy reading poems if they find them amusing. Third, the poem
should expand a childs imagination with bright and vivid color. Fourth, poems should include
creative language to enhance their vocabulary. The fifth quality is imagery, while reading a poem
children should be able to close their eyes and paint a picture in their mind of the poem. The last
essential quality is that the poem should rhyme. Rhyming words can help develop a childs
literacy and allow the child to think of his or her own rhymes. Children should be exposed to a
wide variety of poems in order to gain the full experience of reading poetry.
I enjoy the poems I have selected because each one of them has something that reminds
me of a time in my childhood. These poems are fun and goofy, which will capture a childs
attention. I like how some of the poems that are in this anthology rhyme, while others have their
own twist. The poem Spaghetti! Spaghetti! By: Jack Prelutsky is one of my favorite poems
because it is humorous and I am able to picture what is going on in the poem in my head. This
poem introduces new describing words that I can now use in my every day conversations. All of
the poems in one way, shape, or form involve food being present. I enjoy reading poems that are
focused on food and that also bring other surrounding elements into the story line.

Section 1: Never Take a Pig to Lunch

What you dont know about food
Jellys made from jellyfish.
Spaghettis really worms.
Ice creams just some dirty snow
Mixed up with grimy germs.
Bread is made of glue and paste.
So are cakes and pies.
Peanut butters filled with stuffed
Like squashed-up lizard eyes.
And as you eat potato chips,
Remember all the while
theyre slices of the dried up brain
of some old crocodile.

By: Florence Parry Heide

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
youre wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I cant get enough.
Youre covered with sauce
and youre sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some more please.

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
piled high in a mound
you wiggle, you wriggle,
you squiggle around.
Theres slurpy spaghetti
all over my plate,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I think you are great.

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I love you a lot,
youre slishy, youre sloshy,
Delicious and hot.
I gobble you down
Oh, I cant get enough
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Youre wonderful stuff
By: Jack Prelutsky
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How Do You Make A Pizza Grow?

How do you make a pizza grow?

You pound and you pull and you stretch the dough
And throw in tomatoes and oregano.

Pizza platter for twenty-two,

Pour on the oil and soak it through.

Pizza slices for forty-four,

Chop up onion, make some more.

Pizza pie for sixty-six,

With mozzarella cheese that melts and sticks.

Pizza pizza for ninety-nine,

With peperoni sausage ground-up fine.

Pizza pizza stretch the dough,

Pizza pizza make it grow.

By: Eve Merriam

Peanut Butter and Jelly

First you take the dough and knead it,
knead it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Pop it in the oven and bake it, bake it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Then you take a knife and slice it, slice it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Then you take the peanuts and crack them,
crack them.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Put them on the floor and mash them,
Mash them.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Then you take a knife and spread it, spread it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Next you take some grapes and squash them,
squash them.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Glop it on the bread and smear it, smear it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.
Then you take the sandwich and eat it, eat it.
Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly.

By: Anonymous

Never Take a Pig to Lunch

Never take a pig to lunch,
Dont invite him home for brunch.
Cancel chances to be fed
Till youre certain hes well-bred.

Quiz him! Can he use a spoon?

Does his sipping sing a tune?
Will he slurp and burp and snuff?
Till his gurgling makes you gruff?

Would he wrap a napkin round

Where the dribbled gravys found?
Tidbits nibble? Doughnuts dunk?
Spill his milk before its drunk?

Root and snoot through soup du jour?

Can your appetite endure?
If his manners make you moan,
Better let him lunch alone.

By: Susan Alton Schmeltz

Oodles of noodles
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I love noodles. Give me oodles.

Make a mound up to the sun.
Noodles are my favorite foodles.
I eat noodles by the ton.

By: Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.

Picnics
Sunshine and wieners and pickles and ham,
Not enough salty for the eggs,
Marshmallows cooked on the end of a stick,
Ants crawling over our legs.

Candy and cookies and peanuts and cake,

Finding the frosting has run,
All of us knowing weve eaten too much
Picnics are certainly fun!

By: Marchette Chute

Section 2: Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems

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Toasting Marshmallows
I am a careful marshmallow toaster,
A patient marshmallow roaster,
Turning my stick oh-so-slowly,
Taking my time, checking often.
This is art
A time of serious reflection
As my pillowed confection
Slowly reaches golden perfection.

My brother
Grabs em with his grubby hands
Shoves em on a stick
Burns em to a crisp
Cools em off
Flicks soot
Eats quick.
Im still turning my stick.
Hes already eaten six.

By: Kristine OConnell George

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Breakfast
This chipmunk
Does not dine,
Does not idle,
Does not linger
Has no time
For chits and chats,
Nibbling bits
Of this and that.

Then suddenly

A chipmunk dash
past my feet,
a furry flash
sneaks a piece,

races back,
chewing fast,
a pancake feast
in chubby cheeks.

By: Kristine OConnell George.

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Section 3: A Very First Book of Poetry

Jam on Toast
Why is strawberry jam so red?
Why is toast so brown?
Why when I drop it on the floor
It is always jam side down?

By: Gareth Owen

Soggy Greens
Oh, soggy greens, I hate you,

Oh, apple pie, I love you,

I hate your sloppy slush;

I love you crunchy crust;

And if my mum would let me,

And if my mum would let me,

Id throw you in a bush

Id eat you till I bust.

By: John Cunliffe

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Your Birthday Cake

Your birthday cake is made of mud
Because I cannot cook.
I cannot read a recipe or follow in a book.
Im not allowed to use the stove
To simmer, roast, or bake.
I have no money of my own to buy a birthday cake.
Im sure to get in trouble if I mess around with dough.
But Ive made your birthday cake of mud
Because I love you so.

By: Rosemary Wells

Sugarcake Bubble

Ice Cream Cone

Sugarcake, sugarcake,

Strawberry ice cream,

Bubbling in a pot,

cold and sweet;

Bubble, bubble sugarcake

sugar cone

Bubble think and hot.

My favorite treat!

Sugarcake, sugarcake

Pink and sticky

Spice and coconut,

melting drips;

Sweet and sticky

I lick it off

Brown and gooey

my fingertips!

I could eat the lot.

By: Grace Nichols

By: Heidi E.Y. Stemple

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Berries
Hurry
Berry
Hurry!
Fatten in the sun.

Huckleberry
Gooseberry
Dribble-dribble
Juice berry
Raspberry
Hackberry
Nibble-nibbe
Blackberry
Hurry
Everyone!

The way
Berries
Grow
Is
TOO
SLOW.

By: Lilian Moore

Section 4: Every Childs Book of Verse

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Banquet Song
Now to the banquet we press;
Now for the eggs, and ham;
Now for the mustard and cress,
Now for the strawberry jam!

Now for the tea of our host,

Now for the rollicking bun,
Now for the muffin ad toast,
Now for the gay Sally Lunn!
By: W.S Gilbert

Lemons
A lemons a lemony kind of thing,
It doesnt look sharp and it doesnt look sting,
It looks rather round and it looks rather square,
It looks almost oval, a yellowy pear.
It looks like a yellowy, lemony pear,
It looks like a pear without a stem,
It does look sharp and it doesnt look sting,
A lemons a lemony kind of thing.
But cut it and taste it and touch it with tongue
Youll see where the sharp and sting have been
HidingUnder the yellow without any warning;
I touch it and touch it again with my tongue,
I like it! I like! I like to be stung!
By: Patricia Hubbell

Apples to Keep
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Sound and sweet in the big gray barrels

The crimson apples sleep.
There are the ones that the bright and bending
Orchard gave us to keep.

Some we ate when the heavy branches

Shook windfalls to the ground;
But cold and red in the dusky cellar
These apples, shining and round,

Give us the fragrance of lovely summer

Gleaming along with the shelf.
These juicy apples will taste of sun
All winter! Help yourself!

By: Frances Foster

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