This book has 136 poems written by many different authors. They are put into the categories; The Short of It, One and All, Beautiful Beasts, Delicious Dishes, It's About Time, Happiness Is, Weather and Seasons, Sad and Sorrowful, Poems from Storybooks, and The Long of It. The poems start out very short and get longer as the book goes on. When reading through it, the poem that stuck out to me the most was titled San Fransisco. This stuck out to me because it was not at all what I expected when I read the name. The poem is written in both English and Spanish, and it is about a boy named Fransisco. He talks about how he is so happy the city is named San Fransisco because that name is important to him and has been passed down through his family and now everyone knows how to say it and spell it.
I am not sure if I would use this book for my classroom. I think the poems inside of it are good for lower elementary students however the book itself is very larger and I feel it would be intimidating for younger students. If I did use it, I think I would use it for a read-aloud and read maybe a poem a day to the large group. There are so many poems in this book on so many topics it would be very easy to tie them into different lessons.
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