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No fair! No fair! and other jolly poems of childhood

Justin is "the awfulest kid in the class," if there's anything that Matt won't eat, and if you can send back a new baby brother.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trillin, Calvin (Author)
Other Authors:	Chast, Roz (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Orchard Books, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Children > Juvenile poetry. Schools > Juvenile poetry. Problem children > Juvenile poetry.
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Summary:	Justin is "the awfulest kid in the class," if there's anything that Matt won't eat, and if you can send back a new baby brother.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:	9780545825788 0545825784
Author Notes:	Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography)