A review by alicebme
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

5.0

6. Personal Response: This book is exceptional. I’ve yet to read the sequel, but I hope it is in a similar format. Lonnie’s life is revealed little by little in his poetry, and when students read it, they develop a tolerance (and even an interest in) for poetry as well. [return]7. Connections: I read this aloud to my kids and had them read their own copies silently. They also kept poetry journals where they wrote their own poems using the formats in the book as examples.