Illustrator: Beppe Giacobbe
Genre: Poetry
Themes: death, family, gossip, hunger, appreciating what you have, simple pleasures
Characters: seventh-grade students, ghosts, families
Awards: N/A
Date of Publication: 2000
Publishing Company: Candlewick
Summary: Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices is a book of speak-aloud poems. The three different poems have completely different themes. The first is about the sounds of a family. Second is about the gossip in a seventh-grade class. The last is about a meal that a family is having while being watched by their ghostly ancestors. All the poems have different stories, but they are all connected by the sing-song melody of the four voice harmony.
Recommendation: This is another book that is just fun. I love the sound of spoken-poetry, and this is the perfect book for sharing that love with a group of students. Poetry is one of those subjects that is difficult to share, because people tend to be scared of it. This book makes poetry fun, so people do not have to be scared of it anymore.
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