A Festival for Frogs
From the book A Festival for Frogs
We’re at the Frog Fiesta.
It’s a festival for frogs,
where the frogs are dancing happily
in cowboy boots and clogs.
They parade in wide sombreros
and in brightly colored shirts,
or they swing and sway in circles
in their broad embroidered skirts.
They are bopping to the melodies
of famous froggy songs,
or they’re croaking to the choruses
of froggy sing-alongs.
It’s a hopping hootenanny
on a lovely summer’s eve.
It’s a dance that’s so fantastic.
It’s a bash you can’t believe.
And it’s on a night like this one,
near a bayou, on a bog,
that I sometimes make a little wish…
I wish to be a frog.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 4
Topics: Animal Poems, Music Poems
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Descriptive Poems, Imagery
About This Poem
Kids often ask where I get my ideas. I tell them that my ideas come from lots of places. The idea for this poem came from a single letter of the alphabet.
You see, this is the title poem from my book A Festival for Frogs, which is the sixth book in a series called Funny Poems for Kids. The previous books in the series were The Armpit of Doom, The Biggest Burp Ever, My Cat Knows Karate, My Dog Likes to Disco, and The Elephant Repairman.
You might notice that armpit, burp, cat, dog, and elephant begin with the letters A, B, C, D, and E. So, it made sense to me to include the letter F in the title of the next book in the series. I wondered, “What starts with F?” My first thought was “frog!” So I decided to write about frogs having a party. But why call it a “party” when I could call it a “festival?”
So the entire poem was born from those two words, frog and festival. I hope you enjoy the poem!
From the book A Festival for Frogs
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