Wild Rose Reader Blog - Elaine Magliaro
Laura Salas wrote poems for this collection in a variety of forms: limerick, cinquain, haiku, concrete, and acrostic. The photographs included in the book served as Laura’s inspiration for her poems. For example: Laura was inspired to write a list poem for the picture of a child flying a kite across an expanse of a bright blue sky dotted with puffs of white clouds: Wind Is An… Expert blower Seed sower Sailboat go-er Hat thrower And, best of all, a Kite tow-er Seed Thrower, Hat Thrower: Poems about Weather was published by Capstone for the educational market. It contains poems about fog, arid lands, rain, icicles, lightning, wind, a tornado, and clouds. In the back matter of this book, the author includes a glossary—as well as recommendations for other poetry books about weather and the seasons. In addition, there’s a section titled The Language of Poetry in which the author defines poetic terms—such as alliteration, repetition, free verse, and cinquain.
March 24, 2010Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - Vicki Foote
This is a collection of fourteen poems about weather accompanied by large colorful photographs. Lyrical and imaginative words describe the fog, rain, storms, and rain. Winter cold has a photograph of icy trees with a poem that describes them as “branches blooming with ice, paint a shocking picture of frosty white trees on winter’s blue sky.” A fun poem has a photograph of two children eating “icy treats” and the poem tells how the “searing sun” melts them so they need to “Quick! Lick!” One page is devoted to a brief explanation of the language of poetry. Another page lists types of poems such as acrostic, cinquain, and haiku along with the title and page number that tells where they can be found in the book. Although these poems are written for children in the early grades, they could be used in higher grades for the study of forms of poetry. A glossary, bibliography, Internet sites, and an index are included.
April 1, 2008
