The Kingfisher Book of Children's Poetry
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Book Overview
In The Kingfisher Book of Children's Poetry , Michael Rosen encourages children to see poetry as lively and entertaining. To this end he has included ballads, limericks, riddles, and nonsense verse,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0862727847
ISBN13:9780862727840
Release Date:June 1993
Publisher:Kingfisher
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:5.1" x 0.8" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
good challenges for thinking
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The British have done it again! This is a collection for children who have enjoyed nursery rhymes, played with rhyming humor, laughed at Prelutsky and Silverstein and now are ready for more meaty poetry.Students are expected to understand personification, simile, metaphore and ever so much more on standardized tests. Here is a collection that will give them the material in which to find those styles embedded in meaningful thoughts.My fourth graders begin with "Knock at a Star" edited by Kennedy and then use this collection in the spring. I've bought class sets of both of these and the students are well ready to be led into understanding the deeper thoughts and feelings that poets embed in their poetry. Don't sell them short.
A World of Poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Well, unlike the other two reviewers, I enjoyed reading these poems to my children. I reviewed the book in the store before deciding to buy it. The two poems that were given as examples can be considered another way. The poem of war is very descriptive and true to life. Should war be viewed antiseptically? Should children believe war is a good easy thing the way our current administration would have us believe? The poem about the teacher was funny. Teachers come in with daggers in their eyes. The poem was symbolic. You know about symbolism don't you? What's wrong with getting the kids' attention, showing them that poetry isn't all stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. I've got tons of sweet poetry books for the early years. Many of these poems are great discussion starters. My kids listened intently. My son started some prose immediately after.
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