Brainjuice: American History, Fresh Squeezed!

History homework getting you down? Too much to learn? Names? Dates? Important events? Hang in there! Help is on the way! Adroitly reducing reams of boring data about our nation's past to a generous selection of over-the-top verses, Carol Diggory Shields presents our history with incisive hilarity.

Publishers Weekly

"These 41 short poems begin with a ditty about dinosaurs and end with `The Lady,' a paean to the Statue of Liberty, which Shields casts as witness to the destruction of the World Trade Center," noted PW. "Thompson offers appropriate doses of humor and poignancy." Ages 7-11. (Dec.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Carol Diggory Shields is a poet and librarian whose books routinely garner stars and generate sales. The author of Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stop , Food Fight! , and the Animagicals series, she lives in Salinas, California.

Richard Thompson s political cartoons are published regularly in the Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report .