Caveman Manners and Other Polite Poems

Five humorous poems about manners — including a nose-picking champion who finally discovers tissues — make etiquette lessons genuinely fun for early readers. D.J. Steinberg's strong rhythms and playful scenarios give kids a reason to giggle while absorbing the point, and the All Aboard Poetry Reader series format from Grosset & Dunlap means the book was built with classroom and guided reading in mind. The gentle gross-out humor is squarely age-appropriate and typical of the genre — nothing here will raise an eyebrow. The honest limitation is scope: five poems is a short visit, and reread value is modest. But as a lively, accessible introduction to both manners and poetry, it does exactly what it sets out to do.