Next Please is one of my favorite recent children's books. A group of broken toys anxiously await going into the doctor's office to be fixed. The toys sit outside the doctor's office lined up one by one in chairs. As the door opens the toys go in one at a time. Each toy comes out a few minutes later happy and as good as new. This is a wonderful story if you have a little one at home waiting for his or her first visit to the doctor. The illustrations are a marvel to behold.

Preston McClear, author The Boy Under the Bed

Please, please don't hesitate if you are considering buying this book. If you love words and have any sense of humor & pleasure in pure wordplay, you will be enthralled. I picked it up & couldn't put it down, have spent many hours now trying to duplicate some of the odd & challenging forms Jandl invents/uses. His poetry is a little like an intellectualized version of the jazz riff - he goes spiraling out with word sounds & lets his wit take him, and us, on quite a journey. Then he goes with the way a word is spelled, how it echoes other words, how they morph into each other. All that might sound boringly post-modern to you & just too hip & cheap, but it's not, it's really exciting. One other great thing: the editors very wisely let several translators have a go at the same poem - Jandl's original German is followed by at least three or four individual translations by various translators, trying to work the same alchemical magic on English words. Brilliant stuff, lots of fun, great play. More poets should be experimenting & playing this way, instead of getting bogged down in emotional treacle - (i.e Me-Me-Me-Me poems.) Jandl desrves a wide following. Buy this book!