Title: A-Z: The best children's poetry from Agard to Zephaniah
Author/Illustrator: Michael Rosen
Genre: Poetry
Awards: N/A
Ages: PreK and up
Summary:
Michael Rosen has collected a wide variety of poems into one book from a great many different authors. He wanted to bring poets to the children in a way that could be fun. Readers can flick through this book and stop on any page to see a short poem, long poem, or word poem to catch their interest.
Genre: Poetry
Awards: N/A
Ages: PreK and up
Summary:
Michael Rosen has collected a wide variety of poems into one book from a great many different authors. He wanted to bring poets to the children in a way that could be fun. Readers can flick through this book and stop on any page to see a short poem, long poem, or word poem to catch their interest.
Illustrations:
This book has minimal illustrations but Rosen has illustrated a poem on every few pages. He does a wonderful job of creating small ink sketched and water colored pictures to create visuals for the poems.
In the classroom:
This book would be great for classrooms to expose readers to poetry. This book is designed for readers to be able to just pick up and flip through. It has a variety of poems covering many different types of topics. It opens the world of poetry for a student and exposes them to many well known or unknown poets.
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