Favorite Poems Old and New
Author: Helen Ferris
Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
Genre: Poetry
Grade level: 2-5
This collection of classic and modern poems include a variety of topics and styles. The poems are grouped by areas of interests like as animals and nature. The set is very diverse, as the author includes playful, funny poems, and also somber and serious poems.
Although the book is primarily text, the illustrator does include a few black and white ink drawings. These illustrations are not the main focus of the book by any means, but they do serve to break up the layout of the page to make the text seem more readable, as well as provide a small source of visual artwork to accompany the poems.
I would choose to include this collection in my classroom library because of the way the poems are sectioned. Students can search for poems by topic, depending on what they are interested in. This is also a good example to show students for different rhyming patterns. The author uses many different patterns and even includes some poems that do not rhyme at all.
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