#PunsNotGuns #NetGalley
My thoughts:
This book is just the thing for a quick smile. The poems are all very short and organized by subject. Some of these are politics, money, marriage, sport, family, food & drink and many more.
The poems are witty with a dash of sarcasm and puns. I have enjoyed paging through. This is poetry of the every day, very easy to understand.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama for this title. All opinions are my own.
Pub date: 24 October 2025
From the publisher:
The title says it all: humorous verse cover a variety of topics from Family to religion to money and diet. The verses are short, punching, and PUNishing. You’ll enjoy them all.
About the author:
from Amazon
Charles Ghigna – Father Goose® lives in a tree house in the middle of Alabama.
He is a poet, children’s author, nationally syndicated feature writer, and the author
of more than 5000 poems and 250 books and anthologies for children and adults from
the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children’s books
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR’S FIRST POEMS illustrated by Eric Carle
and THE FATHER GOOSE TREASURY OF POETRY: 101 Poems for Children.
His books are published by Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others.
His poems for adults have been published in numerous journals and magazines including
Harper’s, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post and The Wall Street Journal.
His poems for children appear in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Humpty Dumpty,
Jack and Jill, Spider, Ladybug, Babybug, Caterpillar, Children’s Digest and The School Magazine.
Ghigna served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing
at Samford University, and has received fellowship grants and various awards and recognitions
from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation,
the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Library of Congress.
A popular speaker at schools, conferences, libraries, he has spoken at the American Library in Paris,
and at schools and conferences in South America, Alaska, and throughout the U.S. and overseas.
FUN FACT: Father Goose does NOT own a cell phone!
Joyce's mystery and fiction book reviews with some non-fiction too! 