Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit: Including Word Titles, Shapes, and Magnetic Board [Spiral-bound]

Dave Kapell (Author), Sally Steenland (Author)

Book Description

Discover the mind-popping pleasure of poetry. Draw pictures with words, feel the music of a sentence, and learn to look at life with a mental squint.

There's the poet's toolbox, with a little alliteration and the oomph of onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and to rhyme or not to rhyme. Game poems for groups—scramble poems, 'go 'round poems, automatic poems, and jigsaw poems—and the exotic classics—haiku, tankas, lunes, and lanterns. Plus getting the creative juices flowing, whether writing about your deepest feelings, secrets, and fears, or composing an ode to a favorite T-shirt.

With word tiles and composition board included, it's the book of instant fun.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Writing a poem can make you feel as if a cork has been pulled from the top of your head."
—JUDITH VIORST

Book Description

Why should grown-ups have all the fun? Here to follow last fall's The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry (159,000 copies in print through three printings) is The Kids' Magnetic Poetry® Book and Creativity Kit. And fun it is. Created to be more of an activity-filled kit and less an anthology, Kids' Magnetic Poetry is a large-format, plastic spiral-bound, activity-filled book that comes with 200 big-type, oversize word tiles plus a sheet of colorful magnetic shapes. The front cover is magnet-friendly and folds out to be a composition board big enough for two kids to work on at the same time. At the heart of the book are poetry-related activities and exercises for kids ages 8-12. They learn how rhythm and rhyme work. How tools like simile, metaphor, and personification enrich a poem's meaning, while alliteration, assonance, homonyms, and onomatopoeia give it a unique sound. And they learn by doing--writing a cartoon poem, a scramble poem, a color poem, a self-portrait poem, even a T-shirt poem. Scattered throughout, for the pleasure of reading and as illustration by example, are poems both traditional and magnetic from famous poets and kids across America. Dave Kapell is the inventor and president of Magnetic Poetry®. Magnetic Poetry is hot, hot, hot--over 2 million copies sold make it the bookstores' bestselling non-book product of all time.

Foreword by Judith Viorst. 170,000 copies in print

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 64 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761113576
• ISBN-13: 978-0761113577
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #928,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creativity is thr reason, January 19, 2009

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Jeans Jewels (Ardmore, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit: Including Word Titles, Shapes, and Magnetic Board (Spiral-bound)

to buy this product. I described it to my granddaughter and she got excited at just the idea of it. If you are buying it from an AMAZON reseller, though, please beware. 3 of the four sellers I tried sent me the book without the word tiles, even though their description did not delete the word tiles or specifically note that they were not included. Without the word tiles, any other parts they sell are not usable. It might be my fault for trying to get a good deal except that I only bought from sellers who had "like new" quality on their descriptions of the product. BUy carefully and your child will enjoy this product.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my students love it!, July 20, 2007

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This review is from: Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit: Including Word Titles, Shapes, and Magnetic Board (Spiral-bound)

I bought this for my classroom and my kids LOVE creating their own poetry during free-time or literacy!

5.0 out of 5 stars great book - learn and have fun at the same time while expressing yourself, July 16, 2008

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This review is from: Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit: Including Word Titles, Shapes, and Magnetic Board (Spiral-bound)

awesome book, I bought several as presents and everyone loved them, great for kids 9 -16 years old.