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JULIE,
7: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! LOVED it. Especially Swing poem and the Slide
poem! Two favorite playground things! Thanks!
Thanks! For putting them in your book.
MICHAEL, 9:
That
Jungle
Gym poem is cool . ! It makes
me think of me and my friends, and it's like the poem is
talking about us.
Cool.
AMANDA T. (parent):
All three kids in our house love the book (they're
6,7,10). Also husband & I. We
have lots of oak trees, so
the leaf pile
poem makes us
all smile! (And reminds me of being a kid myself. "Crisp
October feather- bed"--yes,
exactly right!)
RICHARD N.
(parent): I showed my son Steven that page
with four Kites
poems, and
it's like he was waiting for it all his life! Now the
book's his favorite. Hope you do more of these
books!
MS. ARLINE
J. (teacher): A book about playing,
which is a kind of playing-- great idea! My
2nd-grader readers had a ball, working out the
patterns of the poems. We even "acted out" a few,
based on the way the words are laid on on the page. Two
kids, one at each side of the classroom, were
reading Catch* out loud, "back
and forth" to each other. Such a fun change from
regular reading aloud; everyone wanted to
try!
*This links to "Catch," online
at Amazon
(after you click, scroll down a
bit.)
(See also the
page For Teachers.)
KELLY J (parent): Working out the Connect
the Dots poem was great fun for my twins.
They enjoy puzzles & poems, so thanks for combining
those. And they had a wonderful time figuring out
how to read all the poems (it's not really
hard to do, but don't tell them, please! They were very proud
of themselves every time they "got" another
one.)
GEORGE L.
(teacher) The book got them fascinated by the idea
of visual poetry (and now they keep borrowing it from our
library too.) Also the kids were interested in
those pages on your site about graphic poetry (add some more, please) and in
fact, we did a whole project on that! I've been
recommending the book highly to other teachers
here.
(See also the page For
Teachers.)
To buy the
book, click here.
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