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Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-2nd grade. This poem book offers s wide range of poems that will definitely catch the students interest in at least one poem.

This is a collection of poems for children illustrated by Caldecott Medal artists. They are divided into theme sections, each illustrated by a different artist - weather, spooky poems, story poems, animals, spirits, nonsense poems, haiku poems, and thoughts and feelings. The poems range from ancient to contemporary and poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash.

An updated collection of the originally-titled “Poems Children Will Sit Still For: a Selection for the Primary Grades” with Caldecott Medal winning-artists illustrating each section:

“Fun with Rhymes” illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
“Mostly Weather” illustrated by Marcia Brown
“Spooky Poems” illustrated by Margot Zemach
“Story Poems” illustrated by Maurice Sendak
“Mostly Animals” illustrated by Arnold Lobel
“Mostly People” illustrated by Marc Simont
“Mostly Nonsense” illustrated by Richard Egielski
“Seeing, Feeling, Thinking” illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
“In a Few Words” illustrated by Marcia Brown

The poems run the gamut from silly to intriguing; Pauline Clarke’s “My Name Is . . .” is sure to delight young readers with its silly names like Sluggery-wuggery, Jiggery-pokery, and Riddle-me-re while Robert Frost’s classic “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” will evoke thoughts of snowy days and winter woods. Some, like Langston Hughes’s “Winter Moon” or Carl Sandberg’s “Arithmetic” will be instantly recognizable to readers; others, like Karla Kuskin’s “I Have a Lion” or Richard Armour’s “Pachycephalosaurus” are sure to become a young reader’s new-found favorites.

Read it [aloud, please] for the words and the rhymes, explore the pictures . . . this is a book to return to again and again and again.

Several indexes follow the poems: Index of Titles, Index of First Lines, Index of Authors; a brief piece about each of the illustrators is also included.

Highly recommended.

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This book is a collection of random poems. The poems do not have much in common. Most of them have a rhyme scheme. I didn't really enjoy reading this book, because I feel like there's not much children can get from it. I wish it had more of an educational purpose behind it. However I did enjoy the illustrations. They appeared to be water colored paintings. The illustrations were the only part of this book I really enjoyed.

Genre: Poetry
Age: Primary
Review:
This book is a collection of poems selected by different people and illustrated by nine Caldecott Medal artists. The poems range from cute animal poems to poems about seasons and other things.
This falls under the genre of poetry because it is a book filled with poems and poetry.
Use:
1) Read one per day in class as a starter for each day
2) Look at all the different illustrations made by different artists
Ill. Media: Variety of different methods

This poetry book provides poems for all elementary aged children. This book offers a wide variety of poems that are interesting to all children. This would be a great book to use when teaching poetry and rhyming in a classroom setting.

Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. With such a wide variety of poems children are such to find something they will enjoy reading. My favorite poem from the entire book would have to be by Beatric Schenk de Regniers called "If we walked on our hands." This particular poem if filled with lots of humor and rhyming schemes that children will easily pick up on and find hilarious. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-5th.

I really enjoyed this collection of poetry because it was written by so many different authors. Each poem is unique and different. The book itself is divided by topic, and there is definitely at least one poem in the collection that every student would enjoy. For example, there is a section that is solely dedicated to Haikus, but another section that focuses on animals. The illustrations are also wonderful, as they were done by different Caldecott Medal artists.

Summary: This is a book about a child climbing a tree and he translates it into a poem. he describes the different things that can happen to him while climbing a tree. For example avoiding bees. Its poems with rhythms.

Personal Reflection: I like the way the book was written and how each page was a poem to do with him climbing a tree.

Classroom Ideas: I would use this story to show the dangers of trying to climb a tree by yourself and showing them how to write poems.

This was a gift that my son's fourth-grade teacher gave to all of her students. We read it together over the span of 3 nights and bonded over our shared loathing of it. We decided that we are very lucky to never have read the Little House on the Prairie series, as one of the pieces in this collection of short stories and poems is a little narrative about a special Christmas in which Laura & Mary create a beautiful button string for baby Carrie. My son & I decided that enduring this story was officially the biggest waste of time we had ever experienced. The other stories were almost as boring, and included in the collection are the lyrics to Silent Night & a few Langston Hughes poems. Strange.

We actually enjoyed "The Christmas Coat" and I appreciated Hughes's poem about his connection to the "dark" wise man, but if you see this in your Scholastic catalog with a 10-cent price tag and think it'd make a great gift to your students, think again. If your student actually takes the time to read it, they will get the idea that books are best used as sleeping aids or kindling.
No offense to Morgan's teacher (we love her); I just want to spare others from wasting their bonus points.

Summary: This book is about what happens when you climb a tree, lick a fence, talking to bugs. Basically being a child in poetry.

My reaction: Thought this book was adorable. Cute rhymes throughout the entire book. Illustrations were okay.

Classroom: Make up your own rhyme.
2.) Discuss the different types of rhymes.

Great to use to incorporate poetry in the classroom each day. Also, can be used with an illustrator study as students will recognize the work in this book. 9 Caldecott artists work inside.

This is a fun poem all about a little kid climbing a tree. The poem describes what its like to climb a tree and what the little boy sees from the tree when he gets to the top. It rhymes throughout the poem and describes what its like for this little boy to climb a tree. This is an example of Poetry.

All Small is a book compiled of many different poems. The one poem that I focused on is titled "Tomorrows". This poem is about how each day comes and goes so quickly. I think the big idea of this poem is to live and enjoy each day at a time. I liked this poem for two reasons. The first reason I liked it was because of how it ended. The author ends the poem by saying "And so....and so..." The reader can now get a sense of how days just continues, today turns into yesterday and tomorrow turns into today, etc. The second reason I liked this poem was because the illustration used shows a little boy in bed looking out the window, but it is actually daytime outside and not bedtime. To me as the reader, it seems the author is portraying the little boy thinking "Wow, tomorrow is here already? It was just yesterday." Illustrations add meaning to the text and can also allow the reader to add their own interpretation.

A series of poems that a short and sweet easy for young readers to read.

Summary:

Every Time I Climb a Tree is a book comprised of a series of poems. All the poems are easy and short to read. They range in a variety of subjects that are interesting to children during their childhood years. A lot of them are like short stories or have a lot of rhyming involved. There are poems about climbing a tree, glowworms, butterflies, imaginary characters, animals, birds, household objects, drawing, wind, nature, food, seasons, etc. All of them are easy to understand and very relatable. Each poem also incorporates at least one picture, if not more.

Comments (opinions/arguments):

I really enjoyed this collection of poems because their very fun, engaging and goofy. Many of them tell short stories, such as ‘Isabel Jones & Curabel Lee’ and others have funny rhyming like ‘Glowworm.’ I really liked that the majority of them are short and easy to understand. Many of them have only a few verses, but still manage to be cute, funny and meaningful. This book is also a great collection of poems because each one is relatable to every child. Because the poems are all about child like subjects, many children would enjoy reading them. I don’t necessarily believe that this book contains one central message. I believe that it serves as a guide for children learning about poems, imagination and nature. I also really enjoyed the fun childlike drawings incorporated for the children.

A collection of poems by a variety of well-known poets with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists best describes "Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems". The illustrations accompanying the poems are magnificent. White has cleverly woven the poems into the illustrations in a seamless fashion which brings the poetry to life. Also to be commended is her manner of organizing the poems by type of poetry. She has brilliantly grouped all of the poems pertaining to the subjects of weather, animal, and people together. She also grouped all the poems that rhyme and the nonsense poems together. I personally enjoyed the presentation of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" because of Frost's rich and colorful imagery.
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
to stop without a farmhouse near.
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.”
This is an excellent collection of 100 unforgettable poems from the most beloved and brilliant children’s authors. I have a language arts teacher who constantly checks this book out to use as samples for her students. Many of the poems in this literary collection are selected by students for the Poem in My Pocket contest which is held at our school.

Summary:
This is a good poetry book of all kinds of children's poems. One of them is "what they said." It is about all the farm animals getting together and talking to each other. Some animals want to have a spree, but the dog said bow-wow it is to late now. Another one is a pig tale. This one is about Jane Higgins having five piggins. They all kept dying and at the end of the story she had no piggins left.

Personal Reaction:
This is a good poetry book. Especially one to keep in the classroom, because it has so many in the book about all different kinds of subjects. I had one like this when I was little and I just loved to read it.

Classroom extensions:
1. Read when talking about poetry
2. Have them pick their favorite one and write why it is in a poem.

Summary: Simply put this is a poem about time and how fast it can get way from you. Or how slowly it can creep by like a snail with his house on his head. This talks about time as it is something that you should value as you don't know how much or how little time you have.

Reaction: Honestly I chose this poem because I thought it was rather funny and true. It reminds me of how much time I could have spent and should have spent with my family members.

Extentions:
1. I think to teach a math lesson on time itself would be useful as some children have trouble grasping the concept.
2. Having the children write their own poems about time something like Time Is....
3. Give children little cardboard clocks to practice on at their own desks.

Summary: The poem I read was about weather. It talks about how whether it is hot or cold or spring or summer or fall that any weather is better than no weather at all. It could be snowing or blowing a hurricane that the weather is important no matter how it arrives.

Reaction: I think this poem would be perfect for a classroom in southwest Oklahoma as we don't get much weather here at all. It's either hot and muggy or crazy cold and it's hard to find days that are just right. Simply because anyone that lives here knows the weather changes every five minutes or so they say.

Extentions:
1. A weather unit how weather affects the area the students live in.
2. Have students draw a weather cycle how rain falls and then is evaporated students could draw the process.
3. Depending on the season the students could measure the amount of rain or snow depending on where they are. That could be a math lesson as well.

Poem 1: A Pig Tale-James Reeves
Summary:
A short poem about how a woman loses all of her pigs.

Personal Reaction:
I thought this was sad, I don't think it is something I would read to young children.

Poem 2: Beginning on Paper-Ruth Krauss
Summary:
A short poem about a girl who is starting to write her name everywhere.

Personal Reaction:
It was cute, I think to read to kids starting to write they might see that writing your name is fun.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1)Read the writing poem when starting to really practice writing to show that it is fun and you can practice almost anywhere.
2)Use the whole book to pick a poem with the topics you are teaching and introduce the students to poetry.

A Pig Tale
By James Reeves

Summary

This was a poem about Jane Higgins and how she losses all her piggins.

Personal Reaction

It was a funny rhyme about how she loses her pigs but it's kind of sad at the end.

Until I Saw the Sea
By Lilian Moore

Summary

It talks about how the person discovered the sea and how it has different characteristics.

Personal Reaction

This would be a good poem to start out when learning about the sea and how the sun, wind, and everything can reflect it.

Classroom Extension Ideas

1. Learn about pigs and their natural habitat
2. Learn about the sea

This is actually a paperback copy of What Cheer, which see.