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lady_epoh's review against another edition
5.0
I really loved this one, very wholesome and also filled with some wonderful poems, many of which I hadn’t read.
Being the Walt Whitman stan that I am I loved reading Section 26 from Song of Myself (I mean “I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice” are you *kiddin* me!) and the proposed prompt of having children write about every sound that they noticed.
I also really loved the selections from Guillaume Apollinaire, I’ve always found poems that are arranged in a shape to be very aesthetically pleasing, but this is the first time I had read any in French, which made them that much more enticing.
And finally, my favorite piece in the entire book:
“We are free, free, come, come, I am inviting you to the land of freedom where dogs go quack quack instead of bow wow, bark bark.” -Rosa Rosario (5th grade)
Being the Walt Whitman stan that I am I loved reading Section 26 from Song of Myself (I mean “I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice” are you *kiddin* me!) and the proposed prompt of having children write about every sound that they noticed.
I also really loved the selections from Guillaume Apollinaire, I’ve always found poems that are arranged in a shape to be very aesthetically pleasing, but this is the first time I had read any in French, which made them that much more enticing.
And finally, my favorite piece in the entire book:
“We are free, free, come, come, I am inviting you to the land of freedom where dogs go quack quack instead of bow wow, bark bark.” -Rosa Rosario (5th grade)
maggmurray's review against another edition
I felt like it was not challenging me at all, so I decided to stop reading it because it was also just a bunch of poems written by kids and I did not enjoy it.
lisagoe's review against another edition
4.0
This is one of my go to books for teaching poetry to kids. I agree with Koch that students need to see real poetry and be excited by the power of the words.
m_figg's review against another edition
5.0
C'mon, who doesn't love poems by kids? And Koch - bless him.
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