Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Science Verse By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith



This is such a fun book, it mixes poetry and science, and not many books can do that! First off I REALLY Enjoy Jon Scieszka and his books and the first that always catches my eye are the illustrations. His illustrations are very bold and distinct. I say this because it seems like he uses different art techniques when creating them, and he varies the techniques throughout the book. For example on one page there a picture of a dinosaur and it looks like it is painted, a couple of pages later there is an illustration of a collage of different words. This definitely keeps the book interesting as I continue throughout the book. The title of the book gives the reader a hint of what is going to be about, science! This is really interesting since science and poetry do not seem like they would go together. Each poem pertains to a different area of science. There are poems on the scientific method, skeletal system, matter, and planets. All of these poems have some funny twist to them this would be a fun book that could be used to help introduce a new science unit. Let’s say that a classroom teacher was starting a unit on matter then they could refer to this book and find a poem about matter ad read the poem to their students. By doing this the students might have some idea of what they will be learning and entertain them at the same time.
Speak to Me (And I will read between the lines) By Karen English Illustrated by Amy June Bates
The poem s written in this book seems to be written by children. In the front flap of the book there are the names of the children whose poems appear in the book and then it says, “One school day in the city, six distinct voices. Be sure to read between the lines.” This was attention getting and made me want to be more careful when read. I went through each poem and they pertained to some aspect of school life, friends, teacher’s homework, and recess. By the end of the book I did not understand what, “Be sure to read between the lines” meant. Despite that I thought that the poems were insightful , sharing with us hoe the children felt about certain activities they had to door wanted to do during their day, The illustrations were very straightforward, they basically showed what the text said, and not especially interesting.

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