Love this and the surplus of poetry in kids books! Every time I struggle with poetry, I start to read it out loud and it has an entirely different meaning.
I have found too that if there is a chance to hear the original author read his or her work it's the biggest game changer. I remember hearing William Carlos Williams read This Is Just To Say and it made all the difference. Or listening to Langston Hughes read April Rain Song. Sometimes I forget that the technology exists to hear certain poems read aloud, it is a different experience than when it lies still on the page.
Love this and the surplus of poetry in kids books! Every time I struggle with poetry, I start to read it out loud and it has an entirely different meaning.
Totally! That’s such a great point (and makes complete sense when you think about the origins of poetry as an oral art).
I have found too that if there is a chance to hear the original author read his or her work it's the biggest game changer. I remember hearing William Carlos Williams read This Is Just To Say and it made all the difference. Or listening to Langston Hughes read April Rain Song. Sometimes I forget that the technology exists to hear certain poems read aloud, it is a different experience than when it lies still on the page.
Yes!
We love Little Poems for Tiny Ears- to this day every time I sneeze I think “a sneeze/is a breeze/in your nose” 😂
It’s a great line 😊
This is wonderful Sarah! Thank you for all the links and recommendations! What a wonderful resource! Thank you :)
You’re so welcome. I’m a crazy poetry fan and have experienced so much joy sharing it with my children — I hope you find some titles to explore!
Hope you are feeling less sad by now. Thank you for this “We need silence and rhythm in equal measure — in books and in life — and that’s poetry.” ❤️
Thank you for these recommendations! We are loving Scranimals and even have been drawing our own. The vocabulary in the poems is wonderful.
Yay! I love to hear this — and what a fantastic idea to draw your own.
What a wonderful list! We have our own recommendations for the winter (mostly prose), and we'll be adding more poetry books in the spring.
https://sentencecenter.substack.com/p/winter-reading-recommendations
Well, that's a great list! Thank you so much for sharing.