Concrete poems are as much about shape and space as they are about language. The words of each poem are arranged to suggest an image related to the poem’s meaning: a ball bouncing for a basketball poem, a swirl of words heading down a toilet bowl for a poem about being sick. Each poem in this collection is one of 11-year-old Robert’s thoughts on life. His odes to pizza and baseball are as appreciative and fun as his thank-you notes and fart poems are sarcastic and snotty. He loves to play with language and ideas but gets into his fair share of trouble in a book that will be irresistible to poetry fans and disdainers alike. John Grandits uses a variety of patterns and fonts, providing information on each typeface that will be of special interest for readers who have an interest in poetry or design. (Ages 8–14)