Giggle Poet Eric Ode was a little puzzled as he sorted the mail this afternoon. A large manilla envelope contained... A what? A book certainly, but is this German? Russian maybe? No, the title page says Norway. Okay, it's a Norwegian text book for teaching English to year 8 students. But why?
A little closer investigation reveals text book publisher Forlaget Fag og Kultur featured, along with poems by Shel Silverstein, Bruce Lansky, and Mary Frye, Eric's poem "Cat and Mouse" in their section on poetry. So how do you say "Wow!" in Norwegian? |
