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Poems for Children
A illustrated collection of poems, including Browning's Pied Piper of Hamelin and Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat..
- GenresPoetryPicture Books
96 pages, Hardcover
First published January 23, 2000
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December 17, 2020
Book title: Poems for Children
Author: poems compiled by Kate James
Illustrator: designed by Liz Trovato
Reading level: LG
Book level: 3.6
Summary: An illustrated collection of popular poems for children. Contains about 50 poems in all, varied in content and length.
Bookself mentor writing trait:
Presentation -- The design and presentation of this poetry book is uniform, consistent, and classical throughout the book. All poems are typed with the same font and font size. Margins are similar throughout the text. Each poem has a corresponding illustration. The presentation is simple and easy to analyze for a variety of reading levels. It is neat, legible, and carefully designed.
Additional suggestions:
This is a useful collection of poems to include in your classroom reading area. There is no particular theme other than the fact that all poems are suitable for children. Young readers might take initial in some of the more popular poems included ("One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") and from there, as they flip the pages, they will likely take interest in poems that are new and unfamiliar. The collection is useful because it addresses multiple styles of poetry and multiple lengths; there are short poems for beginning readers and longer poems for advanced readers. For that reason, it is a book that can be shared with just about any student and it would be useful to have in your classroom as you teach students about different types of poetry.
Author: poems compiled by Kate James
Illustrator: designed by Liz Trovato
Reading level: LG
Book level: 3.6
Summary: An illustrated collection of popular poems for children. Contains about 50 poems in all, varied in content and length.
Bookself mentor writing trait:
Presentation -- The design and presentation of this poetry book is uniform, consistent, and classical throughout the book. All poems are typed with the same font and font size. Margins are similar throughout the text. Each poem has a corresponding illustration. The presentation is simple and easy to analyze for a variety of reading levels. It is neat, legible, and carefully designed.
Additional suggestions:
This is a useful collection of poems to include in your classroom reading area. There is no particular theme other than the fact that all poems are suitable for children. Young readers might take initial in some of the more popular poems included ("One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") and from there, as they flip the pages, they will likely take interest in poems that are new and unfamiliar. The collection is useful because it addresses multiple styles of poetry and multiple lengths; there are short poems for beginning readers and longer poems for advanced readers. For that reason, it is a book that can be shared with just about any student and it would be useful to have in your classroom as you teach students about different types of poetry.
March 30, 2023
We used this book for our daily poetry time and really enjoyed the poems included. There were some really fun ones we had not heard before, as well as some well-loved favorites. Some of the ones that we most liked were the ones that read like stories in verse.
July 6, 2008
This is a lovely book of poems for and about children. The authors are fairly popular (Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, William Wordsworth, etc.) and so are a few of the poems. Most we'd never heard before and it was nice to meander through the book, one or two poems at a time. Our girls were never overly thrilled with this book, although a few of them caught their interest. I loved it and was happy that I could share a bit of poetry with them.
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