Ummm... Well it was
short. I don't know, when I think of poetry for children this isn't what really comes to mind. There is more than the usual amount of deep thinking that might be associated with a picture book. That isn't to say that I think all kids' poetry should be rhymed couplets with fanciful drawings, actually my favorite children's poets are Stevenson and Kipling.
Maybe if I had been familiar with William Blake's poetry I'd have enjoyed this more. Then again, maybe I was expecting something completely different from what I got. While the poems aren't bad, I really loved a couple of them, they just weren't
outstanding. However, I feel the book has it's usefulness, it might work well in a unit about reading fluency. You really have to nail these poems for them to sound right, it took me a couple of tries on some of them.
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