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.