Origami and Haiku: Inspired by Japanese Artwork This stunning book features three beautiful Japanese art forms in one. For each animal or object, children will be able to read the haiku, enjoy a corresponding work from the British Museum collection, and then make the origami figure! With clear, simple directions for thirteen animals or objects… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books NINE
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Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku Amazon.com Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku – Audiobook Download from: AudiobooksNow Won Ton – Download Downpour.com Won Ton Walmart eBooks Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, this adoption story, told entirely in haiku, is unforgettable. Amazon Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books SEVEN
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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems Amazon.com Mirror Mirror Walmart eBooks First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read again to give familiar tales, from Sleeping Beauty to that Charming Prince, a delicious new spin. Witty, irreverent, and warm, this gorgeously illustrated and utterly unique offering holds a mirror… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books EIGHT
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William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Publisher Pebble meditation is… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books SIX
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The richly colored, romantic watercolors duplicate Longfellow’s imagery, often quite literally, and effectively reinforce the narrative quality of the poem. School Library Journal The great African-American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African-American artist Ashley Bryan, who’s spent more than half his life on a… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books FIVE
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Some of today’s poetry books are only available used, or on Kindle. And others are so new. Such juxtaposition of the same feelings throughout! Whether building a ship from chairs and pillows, making a city out of blocks, playing with toys on the bedspread, or sailing a toy boat down the river to an unknown… Continue reading My Favorite Picture Poetry Books FOUR
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