"Poems are for reading out loud! Tackle tongue twisters, confound your classmates with riddles, make your friends laugh, and transform into a ball of slime as you perform these poems and bring them to life. Discover performance and writing techniques to build your confidence. This is the perfect first book about the fun of poetry and spoken word."--Back cover

Tongue twisters :Try -- Red Robots Slime -- Homophones : The Chilly Chili -- Rhyme : Something wondrous -- Diminuendo : To the countryside -- Crescendo : Turn the radio up -- Speaking quickly : Speedy rocket -- Speaking slowly : This bear -- Patterns and surprise : Funny fish -- Involve the audience : The shockadile crocodile! -- Riddles : Behind you -- Below you -- Near you -- Getting in character : Animals: Lion -- Frog -- Ant -- Sparrow -- Objects with voices : Phone -- Pencil cases -- Slime plots a plan -- Action poems : The bones of pampachiri -- Making people laugh : Hide-and-seek -- Changing your tone : Say how you feel -- Reading in chorus : On the streets on New Delhi -- More than one part : The master of puppets -- Poems ot whisper : Tickle breath -- Don't look now -- Poems that shout : From space.