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All the Small Poems and Fourteen More

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This book is a great collection of poems about nature. My children love these poems, and they are great to teach with.

The late Valerie Worth is well remembered in this volume of nature poems. They are short and sweet, with neat imagery. I used this book to help my daughter, a struggling reader, to read, by reading with her, and sometimes singing the poems as though they were lyrics.
Simple titles like "Pie" and "Toad" evoke a simple life...yet the poems stir the imagination, too: "The watering can rusts among friends." Mm. Natalie Babbit's line drawings complement the poems without fail.

My second grade students really enjoyed these poems. They were inspired to compose their own poems in our school's computer lab. Later, they illustrated their poems and we compiled them in a book for everyone to take home.

Valerie Worth's incredible perspective of finding beauty and interest in simple things is a great lesson for all of us. I use this book with my 10 and 4 year-olds and enjoy it as much myself as they do. If I take a moment to really bask in each poem's simplicity and attention to detail I glean much wisdom from the expertly chosen words. Porches, Zinnia's, Old Tom, Rosebush are just a few of my favorite.

This book was shipped promptly and came in great condition. Great for use in an elementary classroom.

I discovered this book of poetry after reading "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech, which refers to a couple of these poems within the story. Each of these poems are short and readable unlike so many poems which are so hard to understand or relate to. The descriptions are so,that you can really create a picture in your mind. I read several to the 5th graders that come into the library at my school, and they often made personal connections to the poems. Several were inspired to write some poems of their own as part of their writing journals in the classroom. Highly recommended.