Poems for Brothers and Poems for Sisters

Poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston and illustrated by Jean Zallinger

This book isn't as fun as the other poem books I looked at. The illustrations are detailed, and done in what look like pencil. The poems are good, and students in my class may want to free read this, but I don't think I would read it aloud to the class. I don't think it would hold their attention for too long. The poems are all about siblings, what they do together, quarrels, forgiving, and traditions. The poems all look about the same except the length. It would be a good book for diversity because the illustrations show different ethnicities.

nonsense! by edward lear

I love the style of this book. It is a book of poems, all of which are different but start off the same. They all start off with "There was an old man/woman of...." and then the poem continues. This is a good book of poems for younger children because the pictures are so fun and colorful. There are some harder words in the text, like relinquished, wreathed, and affable. These words, however, have the definition written in the illustration which I think is a really neat idea. So the kids are learning these words as they are reading and looking at the pictures. The pages with the poems written on them have great backgrounds like stripes, diamonds, polka dots, and flowers. The illustrations are dont partially on the computer, and partially taken from real life pictures. I would definately use this book in my classroom!

School Supplies a book of poems

Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Illustrated by Renee Flower

This was a very cute selection of poems. The whole book was very child centered. I think it is trying to get kids to become more excited to read poems. Many times poems can be perceived as being read only by adults, so I liked how this book was really geared towards kids. The illustrations on the pages had very vivid, bright colors. The people on the pages don't look like normal people. They are almost like cartoons with green noses, green hair, and blue cheeks. All of the poems are about a school object or something you would see at school. Each poem is written a little different, some poems have a word per line, and others have many spaces in between each line. I would read this in my class for a poem unit, I think it's an eye catching book that would be fun for elementary students.