Allison Wonderland

Poem-Mobiles Crazy Car Poems Author: J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian Illustrator: Jeremy Holmes Genre: Poetry Ages or Grade: 2 nd grade and up This poem is about cars. It is imaginative and the poems are really unique and creative. The illustration is really nice and the poems are so creative that both reading and seeing the illustrations make you imagine it in real life. The poems are really short and each page consists of 2 poems. My favorite poem from the book is the High Heel Car because it reminds me of the lady who lives in a shoe, but in this poem book it has a twist and it is modern. I will definitely have this in the bookshelf for students to read. I will also read this aloud to them during breaks or morning message for it is so unique. I have to say this is one of my favorite poem books because of its uniqueness and its word simplicity. It is easy to understand and it gives you insight of what the poem is talking about. It is a very creative boo

Poems to Learn by Heart Author: Caroline Kennedy Illustrator: Jon J Muth Genre: Poetry Ages or Grade: mostly 4 th and 5 th grade This book consists of a lot of poems that are short and long poems. Few poems that I can read to the lower grade level would be My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson and Under the Bed by Penny Trzynka. These two poems are really simple to understand and it mainly expresses feelings and thinking of a child or reading a child’s perspective. I will definitely read these two poems to 2 nd and 3rd-grade students. Most of the poems are readable for the upper-grade level such as 4 th and 5 th graders but there are some that are really long and the vocabulary level is too high. I will not keep this in the reader’s shelf in the reading section but I will only bring it out and read it aloud to students. I feel like if the students read this book individually they are going to have a hard time for some of them consist of old English which is why i

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night Author: Joyce Sidman Illustrator: Rick Allen Genre: Poetry Ages or Grade: 3 rd through 5 th grade This book consists of poems about animals especially night animals. It consists of a lot of sounding words and informative concrete detailed words. This poem book talks about each night creatures and tells a story of what they do at night. This is a good poem book to keep in my future classroom because each poem makes you imagine and see it vividly in your mind by the way the words are put together. This is also informative for students and will be helpful for classification or science class because it explains weather, animals, and classifications. Not only it is a poem book it is also informative and has a lot of fun facts for students to read on the side of every page.