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!