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Title: A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems by Paul B. Janeczko, Christopher Raschka, Chris Raschka ISBN: 0-7636-0661-8 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hold onto your imagination...it may just run away from you!
Comment: Concrete poems force you to dance, shimmy, and shake when read. These are not poems that tiptoe around a subject. They stomp! They laugh out loud...and this laughter is contagious! I find myself going back to the book time and time again...just one more peek, I tell myself for the 37th time.
This collection of poems is a language lover's dream! It is a juggler throwing words up in the air just to see how they come down again, only to be caught, and returned to the air.
This is a book that will not allow you to sit still. Children will catch the excitement of poetry as well. May they run with it and have a blast!
Rating: 5
Summary: this is a great book
Comment: I love this book. It is my favorite book ever. I dont think you need to understand the poems in order to enjoy them. I really recommend it
Rating: 5
Summary: Buyers should beware of reader criticisms
Comment: Readers who state that concrete poetry is too advanced for children are unaware of how stilted that thinking is. If the children were writing the criticisms, you would surely get a different view.
Poetry does not exist to be "gotten" (or understood) by it's readers, or pigeon-holed into one interpretation. Do not underestimate the capacity of a child to comprehend a poet's message. This book is a wonderful opportunity for children to learn to love and appreciate poetry. Children learn to write by using a combination of writing and drawing (driting). So this book is the perfect segway into a genre that many children never learn to appreciate, because it is force-fed to them from the beginning as something that has one purpose. They are led to believe the goal of reading poetry is to discover "the meaning," and in the process the joy is taken away. Maybe that is why so many adults cannot appreciate poetry. They do not know how. This thinking is not a way to promote literacy.
If you want poems that are dumbed-down to meet what you think a child can appreciate about poetry at an early age, then do not buy this book.
Otherwise, do your child an incredible favor and allow them to explore, at their own pace, this book and this genre.
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Title: Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices by Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet ISBN: 0688162517 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Hurry Freedom by Jerry Stanley ISBN: 0517800942 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie, Ed Young ISBN: 0698113888 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Powwow by George Ancona ISBN: 0152632697 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Backyard Detective: Critters Up Close by Nic Bishop ISBN: 0439174783 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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