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Summary: Hold onto your imagination...it may just run away from you!
Review: Concrete poems force you to dance, shimmy, and shake when read. These are not poems that tiptoe around a subject. They stomp! They laugh out loud...and this laughter is contagious! I find myself going back to the book time and time again...just one more peek, I tell myself for the 37th time. This collection of poems is a language lover's dream! It is a juggler throwing words up in the air just to see how they come down again, only to be caught, and returned to the air. This is a book that will not allow you to sit still. Children will catch the excitement of poetry as well. May they run with it and have a blast!
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Summary: this is a great book
Review: I love this book. It is my favorite book ever. I dont think you need to understand the poems in order to enjoy them. I really recommend it
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Summary: Buyers should beware of reader criticisms
Review: Readers who state that concrete poetry is too advanced for children are unaware of how stilted that thinking is. If the children were writing the criticisms, you would surely get a different view. Poetry does not exist to be "gotten" (or understood) by it's readers, or pigeon-holed into one interpretation. Do not underestimate the capacity of a child to comprehend a poet's message. This book is a wonderful opportunity for children to learn to love and appreciate poetry. Children learn to write by using a combination of writing and drawing (driting). So this book is the perfect segway into a genre that many children never learn to appreciate, because it is force-fed to them from the beginning as something that has one purpose. They are led to believe the goal of reading poetry is to discover "the meaning," and in the process the joy is taken away. Maybe that is why so many adults cannot appreciate poetry. They do not know how. This thinking is not a way to promote literacy. If you want poems that are dumbed-down to meet what you think a child can appreciate about poetry at an early age, then do not buy this book. Otherwise, do your child an incredible favor and allow them to explore, at their own pace, this book and this genre.
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