I really like the mixed media in this book. For examples, everything looks like a collage and the pictures look like pieces of magazines cutout and placed together to form a person. Also, the words in the book, all look like they came from a ransom note, meaning, every letter looks like it has been cut out from somewhere and pasted together to create the words. This creates a very engaging environment because the text is different from a "normal book" where all the text is the same. I also really like the wit and humor of the poet. For example, there is a poem that goes, "the opposite of a doctor? well, that's not so very hard to tell. A doctor's nice, and when you're ill he makes you better with a pill. Then what's his opposite? Don't be thick! It's anyone who makes you sick!." There's just a lot of humor involved in these poems, especially because everything is related to opposites. For example, each of the poems start out with, "what is the opposite of.....?" and continues on.

The big idea of these poems is in relation to opposites, however I think there are some powerful lines, even though most of them can be humorous and witty, there are some that are very powerful and true. For example, one of the poems goes, "what's the opposite of a baby? The answer is a grown-up, maybe" That one in specific stuck out to me because even though it is humorous, and on the page there is a grown man in a stroller with a speech bubble that says, "I want my mommy!" it is still a very accurate statement. There are many adults who act like babies and children so even though this book is meant to be humorous to children, the wittiness can still prove a point and can still be a teaching lesson. ( )

I love the mixed media collages in the book. ( )