Title: The Cat and the Fiddle and More
Author: Jim Aylesworth
Publisher/Date of the Publication: Atheneum Macmillan Publishing Company/1992
Summary of Book: The Cat and the Fiddle and More is a book filled with many rhymes that go along with the familiar Mother Goose rhyme, The Cat and the Fiddle. These poems are full of the same rhythms and playful sounds.
Personal Reaction: This book is a fun and exciting adventure through poetic rhymes, the artwork in this book is extraordinary. For each poem, the illustrations bring life with all of its visual detail and humor. This is a perfect book for children beginning to have fun with the sounds of language.
Extension Ideas:
1. The students will pick a poem out of this book and illustrate it in their journals using crayons, markers, and colored pencils.
2. The students will form groups of four and create a poem with the same rhythm and playful sounds as ones represented in the book and present it to the class out loud.

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