Title: A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
Author: Caroline Kennedy
Illustrator: Jon J. Muth
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005
ISBN: 00-7868-5111-2
Summary: This is a big book full of multiple poems for children. In the beginning, the ooh actually has a table of contents, which breaks the poems down into categories. Some categories are About Me, That's So Silly!, Animals, The Seasons, The Seashore, Adventure, and Bedtime. There are even foreign poems in other languages that are part of this poetry book.
Evaluation: This book is full of awesome poems for children. All of the ones that I read I really enjoyed. Each poem also has an illustration with it, which can make it more fun for children. Some poems are short and some are long, but they are all entertaining. I like that the author specifies in her introduction that these are her favorite poems specifically for children. The book is full of color, life, and poems.
Rating: I would give this book 5/5 stars.
Caroline Kennedy has several poetry anthologies for children. I have one at home that primarily includes famous poetry for adults that could be enjoyed by children because of the content of the poems. The anthology does not necessarily include poems written specifically for children. Is this collection the same way? The articles we read for this week address this issue. What are your thoughts? Are these poems appropriate for children?
ReplyDeleteThe few poems that I did read seemed appropriate for children, although looking at some of the titles of some of the poems, I could see how some of them may not be.
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