Seriously, don't let your children read this! 
 This book feels referential to Shel Silverstein, with his fun, often silly, and sometimes darkly rhyming poetry for children. However, Burton's poems are very very dark in comparison, and with a lot less to them. His collection is made up of pithy little rhymes mostly about little boys and girls made out of unfortunate materials (like stain boy, boy with nails in his eyes, and the pin cushion queen), or couples who wish for a baby and then end up having freakish mutant offspring whom they hate (like robot boy, oyster boy, and anchor boy). The stories are very dark, sometimes gruesome, and the poetry itself isn't even that great. I found a lot of the rhymes a bit awkward--either too tight or off-rhythm because Burton had dropped beats that he shouldn't have. 
 Even by the end of the book, it wasn't clear to me whether Burton and his publisher truly intended this collection for children or not. Certainly, it was not a worthwhile read.