Book Reviews
In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, Jennifer Brabander asks The President's Stuck in the Bathtub author Susan Katz about writing presidential poetry. Read the full review of The President's Stuck in the Bathtub here.Jennifer Brabander: Which president was the hardest to write a poem about?Susan Katz:...
The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems about the Presidentsby Susan Katz; illus. by Robert NeubeckerPrimary, Intermediate Clarion 64 pp.2/12 978-0-547-18221-6 $17.99In forty-three poems, Katz gives each of our U.S. presidents their due. She concentrates on little-known facts (William McKinley taught his parrot “Yankee Doodle”) but often slips...
Every Thing on Itby Shel Silverstein; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Harper/HarperCollins 202 pp.9/11 978-0-06-199816-4 $19.99Library ed. 978-0-06-199817-1 $20.89Posthumously published works are sometimes weak, but this collection of 140-plus poems is every bit as good as Silverstein’s earlier poetry collections, beginning with the now-classic Where the Sidewalk Ends (rev. 4/75)....
I might be working with kids labeled disadvantaged or gifted; it might be librarians or English teachers (also disadvantaged or gifted). I write the same thing on the board every time:The wounded soldier staggered past the house.Then I ask what’s wrong (I use the word wrong because I’m bold and...
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