Holiday Shenanigans
Subtitle: Celebrating Through The Year With Silly Verse
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: October 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781418427023
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; American - General; Poetry; American English
Description: Humorous poetic romp through the year, with clever tributes to each of the major holidays along the way.
Table of contents: title: Introduction					  1  New Year’s Day				  5 “Bobby’s New Year’s Resolution” Groundhog Day				11 “I Saw My Shadow on Groundhog Day” Valentine’s Day				15 (1) “Ode to an Artichoke (Love and Vegetables)” (2) “A Politically Correct Wish to a  Female Coworker” Presidents’ Day				23 “Hail to That Guy— You Know Who I Mean” St. Patrick’s Day				27 “The Truth about St. Patrick’s Day  (A Leprechaun’s Tale)”  April Fool’s Day				35 (1) “The April Fool” (2) “Don’t Be an April Fool” Easter					43 (1) “On Rising Easter Morning” (2) “The Origin of the Easter Bunny— (really!)—A Hare-Raising Tale” Cinco de Mayo				53 “Cinco de Mayo (Border Raiding)” Mother’s Day				59 “Mom and the Legend of the  Pale Face Tribe” Memorial Day				  67 “I Remember Memorial Day” Father’s Day				  75 “A Father’s Day Fable” Fourth of July (Independence Day)	  83 “The ‘Tail’ of the Great Escape” Sadie Hawkins’ Day			  89 “Gender Inequality  (and the Great Bathroom Discovery)” Labor Day					  95 “Labor Day? (Me Thinks Not)” Columbus Day				  99 “The Rhyme of the Messed-up Mariner” Halloween					103 (1) “Don’t Lose Your Head This Halloween” (2) “Bedeviled” (3) “The Night Dracula Went Batty” (4) “‘Bones’—‘James Bones’” Thanksgiving				113 “Tom the Turkey’s Close Shave” Hanukkah					129 “The Tale of Mr. Al and the Ugly King” Christmas					141 “Christmas Eve with Ken and Barbie”