Thumbprint Press/Upside Downside

Upside Downside Inside Out book image Who can resist this buddy, bumpy, spicy, spinny, can't-stop poetry romp?

This playful, poetic romp through childhood will make kids ages 3 to 100 beep like a video game and sproing like a budding tooth. Thirty-nine spicy, spinny, irresistible poems take the reader from the zap of a bad friend day to the zing of jumping from a swing. An informative, close-up section at the end turns poems inside out by showing how plain words become poetry. Find out how poems pop out by reading an interview with the authors.

For ages 5-10 and anyone who has ever been a kid. Copyright 2001/Revised 2003. Teacher's edition available, e-mail thumbpress@aol.com. 7" x 7" Paperback, 49 pages, Color cover, black and white illustrations.

The children’s poems in Upside Downside Inside Out address kids’ true feelings of joy and sorrow, love and frustration…they have the stuff of good life to them and that is good and necessary. Even an adult can enjoy them.
- Daniela Gioseffi
American Book Award Winning Author

Spicy, Spinny, Can’t-Stop Poems