 Evan lives in a household of eight and feels as if he doesn’t have a place of his own. His mother lets him pick out his very own corner in their home. Evan decides to decorate his corner with pictures, furniture, plants, and his very own pet. |
When the Teacher Isn’t Looking is a poetry book about with topics that range from food fights and cafeteria lunch to falling asleep in class and turning in the wrong homework, in the tradition of No More Homework! I think children of all ages will enjoy this book of poems!
 This is the story of two Union soldiers, Pinkus Aylee and Sheldon Russell Curtis who befriend each other when Pinkus discovers Sheldon wounded in a field during the Civil War. Pinkus takes Sheldon back to his home, where his mother nurses him back to health. After being discovered by the Confederacy, they are both captured, and Pinkus is hanged. Sheldon lives to pass the story on until eventually Patricia Polacco’s father passes it on her. |
This book is filled with poems that range in their topics, they include: Weather and Seasons, Animals, Children, Grownups, and Spaces and Places. The poems could be used by all students, there short poems, long poems, and some have illustrations. I enjoyed reading the variety of poems.
The book that I found in the library was a book filled with many poems that the author liked. I chose one of those to write in my KiddieLiter Blog.
They say that God lives very high!
But if you look above the pines
You cannot see our God. And why?
and if you dig down in the mines
You never see Him in the gold,
Though from Him all that’s glory shines.
God is so good, He wears a fold
Of heaven and earth across His face-
Like secrets kept, for love untold.
But still I feel that His embrace
Slides down by thrills, through all things made,
Through sight and sound of every place:
As if my tender mother laid
On my shut lids her kisses’ pressure,
Half-waking me at night and said,
“Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?”
This book is about a dog’s life, Mr. Beefy. In this book the dog tells many tales, he sleeps alot and engages in mischief.
The Way I Feel is a rhyming book about feelings that children feel through different situations. Cain covers disappointment, anger, jelousy, and happy, among many other feelings. At the end of the book, she writes that you never know how you are going to feel but all the feelings are a part of you. This book has beautiful illustrations and is perfect for children learning about poetry.
One’s quest necessitates making decisions that can lead to success or can lead to a standstill, but the important thing to remember is to not worry — soon things will start happening if one perseveres. Even so, sometimes making the right decisions in life can be perplexing and daunting to the point that it seems useless to go on. But one must not acquire a defeatist mindset and wind up waiting (and accomplishing nothing) in The Waiting Place. The Waiting Place is filled with many people and shouldn’t be one’s final destination.
One’s name is inconsequential. Persistence, perseverance, and sometimes going in a new direction, are factors that foster one’s success. By employing them, Dr. Seuss states that success is 98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed!
Bugs is a picture book of poetry. This is a compilation of poems about different types of bugs. Some of the poems show how the type of bug lives, other talk about why some people do not like bugs.
This book is about a girl troll who was orphaned as a child but needs to have a dowry to get married to a man troll, so she works hard to get the dowry, but it turns out that the man troll was just mean and was only interested in her money she made. In the end she tells the dude troll off and marries the king because he loved her for who she was.
