3 more books worth some looks

Here are 3 more poetry books. 

Lewis, J.P.(2012) If You Were a Chocolate Mustache. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong

If your child is interested in poetry about soiled park benches, light up toilets, animals, and riddles this is the book you’re looking for. The entirety of the book is silly poems about various subjects that children will find funny. As it says in “Bear One, Bear Two” “Laughter is a magic spell.”

                Mathew Cordell’s illustrations accentuate many of the poems in the collection, helping to wrestle meaning from the many jumbled silly word sequences.  If a child is a fan of Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky and has already read all their works, then this is their next stop.

Rosen, M.J. (1996) Food Fight. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Company

What’s the one thing everyone needs? Food!  Food is the topic for the poems in this collection.  J. Patrick Luis, Jack Prelutsky, Paul Janeczko and 30 other different children’s authors lend their poems to this book.  Michael Rosen illustrates each one in full color, creating a very attractive collection

This is a book of poetry anybody can relate to.  The poems are not just about the foods themselves, but the experiences that go along with eating them.  There are several types, lengths, and varying degrees of hilarity.  The illustrations are lovely and they really help to accentuate each and every poem.

Ciardi, J. (1962) You Read To Me, I’ll Read To You. New York, NY: Harper Collins

This book is not meant for one, but two.  In this book you’ll find poems for an adult to read printed in black ink, and poems for the child to read printed in blue.  The poems tend to alternate, giving both readers the joy of reading these clever and funny poems

Reading silly poems by yourself is fun.  Reading them together with someone else is Super Fun!  I read these with my daughter and we enjoyed every moment.  The poems are witty and the drawings quite expressive.  Though this is an older collection; topics like animals, getting in trouble, daddy being a terrible cook, and dreaming are timeless.