ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING
DARREN SARDELLI’S HUMOROUS POETRY
DARREN SARDELLI’S POEMS ARE FEATURED IN MANY DIFFERENT CHILDREN’S BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE US AND THE UK!
Rolling in the Aisles
(A Collection of Laugh-Out-Loud
Poems)
Rolling in the Aisles (Meadowbrook Press, 2004) contains some of the funniest poems ever written by Darren Sardelli, Bruce Lansky, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Douglas Florian, Kenn Nesbitt, Ted Scheu, Robert Pottle, Dave Crawley, Charles Ginga, Linda Knaus, Kathy Kenney-Marshall, and many other wonderful poets. In this book, you’ll find hilarious poems about pets, teachers, food, holidays, and sports. Stephen Carpenter brings each poem to life with his wonderful illustrations. Rolling in the Aisles is the perfect book for anyone who loves to smile, giggle, or laugh.
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Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Tot
(Songs and Rhymes for
Toilet Training)
Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Tot (Meadowbrook Press, 2005) is the most entertaining and motivating toilet training book ever! It includes eighteen funny songs and poems to help two-to-four-year-olds through the process of toilet training. This book is a fun and easy way to gain a child’s cooperation in toilet training. Anne Catharine Blake’s delightful and colorful illustrations give toddlers the confidence they need to become big boys and girls. This book contains songs and poems by Darren Sardelli, Bruce Lansky, Kay Cummings, Christine Zuchora-Walske, Robert Pottle, and Linda Knaus.
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Peter, Peter, Pizza Eater (And Other Silly Rhymes)
Peter, Peter, Pizza Eater (Meadowbrook Press, 2006) is a collection of funny and edgy poems that will knock Mother Goose’s socks off. Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, Yankee Doodle, and Little Boy Blue have not been able to stop laughing ever since they read all the funny poems in this book. Jack and Jill are still talking about Stephen Carpenter’s entertaining illustrations. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men are quickly lining up to purchase a copy of Peter, Peter, Pizza Eater. This book contains poems by Darren Sardelli, Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Tim Tocher, Bill Dodds, Robert Scotellaro, Joyce Armor, Linda Knaus, and other great poets.
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Pizza Eater today!
Dinner with Dracula (Hilarious, Hair-Raising Poems)
Dracula can’t wait to sink his fangs into this tasty book of scary and funny poems. Darren Sardelli, Jack Prelutsky, Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Eric Ode, and a few other awesome poets brought some of their best Halloween poems to the Meadowbrook laboratory, added a few bolts of electricity, and watched their poems come to life. Dinner with Dracula (Meadowbrook Press, 2006) is filled with spine tingling poems about monsters, ghosts, giants, and mischievous creatures that do some pretty creepy things. Mike Gordon created some of the scariest illustrations around for this hair-raising book of poems.
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Dracula today!
My
Teacher’s in Detention
(Kids’ Favorite
Funny School Poems)
My Teacher’s in Detention (Meadowbrook Press, 2006) contains the most hilarious school poems ever written by the top poet’s in the children’s book industry today. Once you pick up this book and start reading it, you won’t want to put it down. The poems by Darren Sardelli, Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, and all the other great poet’s who wrote poems for this book, will make you look at school in a very different way (which might make your teachers a little bit nauseous).
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Dinosaur
Poems – The Anthology
(Funny Poems about Dinosaurs)
Dinosaur Poems – The Anthology (Scholastic UK, 2006) is a wonderful assortment of funny dinosaur poems selected by Paul Cookson, one of the top children’s poets in the UK. This is a Jurassic-tastic poetry collection with enough thrills and spills to bring you to the edge of extinction. The poems by Darren Sardelli, Paul Cookson, Roger Stevens, Eric Ode, Robert Scotellaro, Graham Denton, and Sue Cowling are some of the best prehistoric poems around!
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READ ME OUT LOUD!
This wonderful book contains a poem for every day of the year from the very best modern and classic poets. There are raps, chants, action verses, loud poems and quiet ones, in fact, there's something for every mood or moment. Some of the poems in this unique collection of poetry were written by Darren Sardelli, Willian Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas, and Christina Rossetti. It’s a book that has at least one poem for everyone!
I Hope I Don't Strike Out!
(And Other Funny Sports Poems)
I Hope I Don’t Strike Out is the first major anthology of funny poems about sports. It was designed to motivate sports-loving boys and girls to read by focusing on the funny side of sports. It covers all major sports in which kids participate, including baseball, football, basketball, soccer, swimming, skiing, running, karate, golf, volleyball, and dodgeball. A few of the All Star poets who contributed to this fantastic book of sports poetry include Darren Sardelli, Bruce Lansky, and Jeff Mondak.
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BUSES TO BOOKS
Reading, Writing, and Reciting
Poems About School
Poetry is a form of writing that makes words come alive! The poets (in this book) use different styles and techniques to create feelings or experiences that spark imagination and creativity. BUSES TO BOOKS is a fun book that makes poetry enjoyable for elementary school students. Some of the poems featured in this book were written by Darren Sardelli, Eileen Spinelli, Eric Ode, Kenn Nesbitt, and Robert Pottle.
As well as various anthologies, Darren Sardelli’s poems have been published in newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and have appeared in television shows and documentaries.
Here’s a list of Darren’s most recent publications:
- The American Spirit – Katrina - Long Island Press, Oct. 2005, Smithtown News, Oct. 2005, Habitat for Humanity Newsletter, Nov. 2005, The Smithtown News, Nov. 2005, The Louisiana English Journal, 2006, This poem also appeared in an independent documentary in 2006
- The Silliest Teacher in School - Smithtown News, 2005
- Cupid’s Arrow - Pines Times Newsletter, 2005
- Little Boy Blue, Please Cover Your Nose – Growing Up Great (A newsletter published by The Child Care Health and Safety Advisory Committee in El Paso, CO (January/February 2007)
- My Doggy Ate My Essay and Don’t Forget to Share – These 2 poems are featured in the book, Pet Poems (TJMF Publishing, 2007)
Darren Sardelli has won a few awards for his outstanding poetry.
Darren’s most recent awards include:
1st Place for Children’s Book Writing at the 2005 Santa Barbara’s Writers Conference (which is one of the top ten writer’s conferences in the world).
(2nd Place Poem – My Doggy Ate My Essay)
1st Place in the 2008 TJMF Poetry For Children Contest
(1st Place Poem – Surfing)
