The Popcorn Astronauts: and other biteable rhymes by Deborah Ruddell

Title: The Popcorn Astronauts: and other bitebable rhymes
Author/Illustrator: Deborah Ruddell/Joan Rankin
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Genre: Poetry
Age: 4-8

This book had many poems for students to read. 4 quick poems I read had to do with the seasons, each of them had a last line, that didn't quite rhyme in essence a twist. I thought the poems were cute and that children would enjoy reading them since they do experience seasons and that would be something fun to talk about. Another cute poem I read was called The Strawberry Queen, it had a rhyme scheme of aabbcc. It was easy to follow and was cute. It said you would know her when she entered the room, because you could smell her springtime perfume, her elegant suit was beaded and red, and you noticed the leafy, green crown on her head, remember to bow and address her as ma'am but don't say a word about strawberry jam. Another one I read was called Lickety-Split Picnic, it mentioned what all they were taking on there picnic such as,a shade tree, a baseball and a blanket, green grapes and baked beans, a bow-wow and blue jeans, hot dogs and lollipop, cupcakes and flip flops, ad a daydream and a drumstick for an easy-breezy picnic. The last poem in the book was The World's Biggest Birthday Cake, and it talked about how everything was over-sized and that the cake was as tall as a tree, the roses were high as their shoulders and their were flavors of jellybean boulders. They had to use a ladder just to reach the top of the cake and the sky was so blue, everyone's craziest wish had come true.

The overall them of this book had to do with food, but there were poems that didn't have anything to do with food. I think this book would be great for younger children to show them rhyming and introduce them to different vocabulary words. I think this book would be enjoyable for students to read on their own, now unless they had trouble reading some poems the teacher could read it to them. I probably wouldn't use this in any major lesson, it would probably be something for a rainy day, and we just sit and read a few poems for our recess time, before doing something else.

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