![]() ![]() Marilyn Singer offers these lines about fleas:Ĭan you hear the cadence here? Your younger readers/listeners will be able as well, making Singer's piece just one that can be emulated for style and rhythm of a student's own.Ĭurrent Children's Poet Laureate, J. ![]() For Writer's Workshop readiness, Hopkins's collection here has some of the best of the best by way of master poets who tease with a promised rhyme or lend an irresistible cadence that just begs reading aloud. The illustrations are cartoon-ish, but realistic enough to satisfy your bug lovers in the room. Will Terry's illustrations are a graphic delight with each page dedicated to the piece and a depiction of the bug being celebraed. Patrick Lewis ("Spoiled Rotten"), Kristine O'Connell George ("Bedbug Has a Bite to Eat"), and Douglas Florian ("The Giant Water Bug"). ![]() Kennedy ("Colorado Potato Beetle"), Marilyn Singer ("Disagreeable Fleas"), J. He's brought along his poetic friends to include Rebecca Kai Dotlich ("Boll Weevil"), X. Lee Bennett Hopkins has done it again with NASTY BUGS. But when will they ever get to read a collection of poems about them? Or find them in a lesson or a book quite possibly meant just for them. Look around your room right now? I'll bet you have some boys who absolutely love bugs. think I see a kind of perfect match with the approach of April when we begin to celebrate poetry with our younger readers. ![]()
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