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    My Rhino Plays the Xylophone: Poems to Make You Giggle
    My Rhino Plays the Xylophone: Poems to Make You Giggle
    My Rhino Plays the Xylophone: Poems to Make You Giggle
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    My Rhino Plays the Xylophone: Poems to Make You Giggle

    By Graham Denton

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    A collection of noted comic poet Graham Denton's hilarious poems for children. With poems on topics from sport to family to TV to aliens, and a lot of silliness thrown in, this is guaranteed to keep kids chuckling. A brilliant book to get young readers enjoying poetry, and a great resource for teachers looking for poems that kids will love to learn by heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 14, 2014
    ISBN9781472904577
    My Rhino Plays the Xylophone: Poems to Make You Giggle
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    Graham Denton

    Graham Denton is a widely published poet and anthologist. Publications of poems selected by Graham include My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish for A & C Black, as well as Silly Superstitions (Macmillan), Wild! Rhymes that Roar (Macmillan) and the CLPE-short-listed Giving You the Willies (Delightfully Devilish Verse and Much Much Worse).

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      My Rhino Plays the Xylophone - Graham Denton

      My Rhino Plays The Xylophone

      My rhino plays the xylophone,

      my tiger plays the flute,

      my lemur picks a lyre

      and my llama plucks a lute,

      my panda has a mandolin

      it delicately strums,

      my elephant’s a trumpeter,

      my dromedary drums.

      My mole knows the viola

      and my antelope sitar,

      my goat’s a virtuoso

      on a classical guitar,

      my cello-playing jellyfish

      is certain to astound,

      my marmoset’s marimba

      makes a most melodic sound.

      My snake can shake a rattle

      and my panther bangs a gong,

      my wallaby starts singing

      and my ants all chant along,

      my crocodile on glockenspiel

      is wonderful to hear,

      my weasel when it whistles

      is so easy on the ear.

      My lizard is a wizard

      on the tenor saxophone,

      my yak can play the zither,

      my macaque the slide trombone,

      my walrus roars in chorus

      with my mongoose, moose and mouse…

      if you’re a fan of music

      you’d just love it at my house.

      I Think I’m Allergic To Mornings

      I think I’m allergic to mornings.

      As soon as I crawl out of bed,

      I wander around like a zombie

      that’s just risen up from the dead.

      I’m dozy, I’m dreamy, I’m drowsy,

      I’m in an unshakable daze,

      I stagger about in a stupor,

      and cannot break out of my haze.

      I’m ever so sluggish and slothful,

      I’m tired from my head to my toe,

      I find that I move very slowly

      and haven’t much get up and go.

      This allergy’s most disconcerting,

      though, strangely, it seems, as a rule,

      it only affects me on weekdays

      when I’m getting ready for school.

      The Spinach Went Spinning

      The spinach went spinning,

      the fennel was flung,

      the rocket got launched

      and the broccoli slung,

      the radishes reeled

      as the carrots were hurled,

      the watercress

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