Friday, May 27, 2011

Something Big Has Been Here

By Jack Prelutsky (1990)
Illustrated by James Stevenson




Jack Prelutsky is the man when it comes to children's poetry. His poems are so much fun. I really enjoyed reading through them, they are simple and rhyme, and just a good time to read. Stevenson's illustration are simple, but add humor to the experience.

I think this would be a great book to introduce young students to poetry. Prelutsky's poems are very accessible, and the topics are very relatable for elementary school aged children. I'm sure that students would have a ball doing choral readings from the poems in the book, and a lot of the poems could lend themselves as themes to art projects as well.

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