Title: Here’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
Author: Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters
Illustrator: Polly Dunbar
Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Candlewick
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 112
This book is a compilation pf poems that capture all the moments of a child's day, from the moment they wake up until they go to bed at night. Authors Yolen and Fusek have gathered poems from widely know writers such as Langston Hughes, Margaret Wise Brown , and Gertrude Stein. The book includes over 60 poems that cover a wide variety of topics that children can relate to, like; "After a Bath", "In Bed With Cuddly Creatures", "Grandpa", "Cat Kisses", and many more.
The illustrations in this book are warm and inviting. They are very animated and cartoon-like, but the colors are muted and pastel/warm.
I would like to use this book in a first grade classroom. One activity that I would do is to read a couple poems from the book and then have the students write their own poem about a part of their day.
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