Grades 1-5 - Ted Scheu is fast establishing himself as one of the top poets for children in the US. In ""I Froze My Mother and Other Seriously Funny Family Poems"" he manages to capture-with honesty and loads of rich, ironic humor-all the dreams, screams, groans, and giggles of family life, seen through the clear eyes of a child. Children ages 6 to 11 find rhyming answers to nagging questions about dealing with puzzling parents and siblings. Titles include ""I Froze My Mother,"" ""The Alien in Our Bathroom,"" ""My Father is a Baby,"" ""How to Beat a Bully,"" and ""Scream Quietly, Please."" Sprinkled in among these 58 fun and funny poems are startlingly beautiful photo illustrations from the camera of Peter Lourie. His black and white, close-up images of kids perfectly compliment the adjacent poems. This updated, second edition of ""I Froze My Mother"" (first published by Cold Tree Press in 2007) is one of the freshest collections of poems for kids to tumble down the stairs in years.