Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Picture Book 11: R is for Rhyme

Author: Judy Young

Illustrator: Victor Juhasz

Genre: Poetry

Themes: elements of poetry

Characters:
~Primary: none
~Secondary: none



Date of Publication: 2005

Publishing Company: Thomson Gale

Summary: R is for Rhyme is an alphabetic poetry book.  Students learn about different elements of poetry and types of poems through example.  In addition, each poem is accompanied by a summary and a question to help the reader delve deeper into the poems.

Recommendation: This book is a good way to introduce concepts of poetry, especially to younger audiences.  Each of the twenty-six poems is entertaining and engaging, and the glossary in the back gives easy to understand definitions of difficult concepts.

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