A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets
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Book Overview
It's easy to make one,
lying on your back in the newest snow.
You move your arms like wings.
Later you forget about your creation,
go inside for a mug of hot chocolate.
That's when she rises from the snow
takes a feathery breath, tries out her wings. So begins a poem about making a snow angel, but it might also refer to the mysterious way that a poem comes into being and takes on a life of its own. In this new collection, Ralph Fletcher shows us how you can write a poem about almost anything: a baby sister, a Venus's-flytrap, a failing grandmother, a squished squirrel, grammar homework, and more. These poems take us inside the creative process as they reveal both the playfulness and the power of poetry. More than anything, they invite us to pick up pen and paper and write some poems of your own.
lying on your back in the newest snow.
You move your arms like wings.
Later you forget about your creation,
go inside for a mug of hot chocolate.
That's when she rises from the snow
takes a feathery breath, tries out her wings. So begins a poem about making a snow angel, but it might also refer to the mysterious way that a poem comes into being and takes on a life of its own. In this new collection, Ralph Fletcher shows us how you can write a poem about almost anything: a baby sister, a Venus's-flytrap, a failing grandmother, a squished squirrel, grammar homework, and more. These poems take us inside the creative process as they reveal both the playfulness and the power of poetry. More than anything, they invite us to pick up pen and paper and write some poems of your own.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1590783530
ISBN13:9781590783535
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:Wordsong
Length:32 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.1" x 7.3" x 8.8"
Age Range:9 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 4 to 7
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Great poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
My students loved the poetry in this book. Fun, serious, all types! Great for imagery!
poems for guys
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
If you have a hard-hearted middle school boy who might be a poet, this book is just the thing to get them writing. Illustrations are terrific, the poems are funny, real, from the heart, not a sappy one in the batch. For teachers struggling to get boys to write poems, this will surely do the trick. Use it with Jack Prelutsky's new book, READ A RHYME WRITE A RHYME and you'll have the whole class turning out poems.
INCREDIBLE
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
thats the word that discribes the illustration in this book. it's a must buy!
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