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| Raczka, B. (2011). Lemonade: and other poems squeezed from a single word. New York: Roaring Books Press. |
By Bob Raczka
Illustrated by Nancy Doniger
Roaring Books Press
New York, New York
2011
48 pages
This is a fantastic book with endless possibilities for classroom use. It consists of anagrams, rebus (uses pictures to represent words), and concrete poetry, making it a versatile, whimsical adventure. The books will enrapture all readers and inspire them to create poems of their own. The poems are simple enough that most readers third grade and up will understand them and be able to use them to create their own poems. Every poem is created off of just one word. For example:
Moonlight
hot
night
thin
light
moth
in
motion
Each word's poem is written in two styles: one more concrete and one more traditional. (Buy the book here to check it out and see what I mean.) I had never heard of this book before and only came across it when I did a Google search for "great poetry books for kids" and this is one that came up. I checked it out from the local library and fell in love with it's simplicity and capacity to inspire.
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