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April is National Poetry Month! All month long we’ll be celebrating by posting some of our favorite poems for Poetry Friday. For our final Poetry Friday post, we chose a poem from Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building, written and illustrated by Christy Hale.
One by one,
block by block,
plastic shapes
interlock.
Yellow, red,
white, and black,
all connect
in a stack.
Habitat 67 in Montréal
Build a world
brick by brick.
Hold them close.
Hear the click.
What are you reading for National Poetry Month? Let us know in the comments!
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Is Everyone Ready for Fun by Jan Thomas. 2011. Simon & Schuster. 40 pages.
Look! It's Chicken's sofa! PLOP! It's time to... Jump! Up and down, up and down. Let's all JUMP up and down! On Chicken's sofa!
I love Jan Thomas. I do. I just love, love, love her books. There is just something happy-making about them; they're simple, true, but oh-so-much-fun. There's just something pure and simple and wonderful about them all!
This book stars three cows and a chicken. The three cows are ever so excited about jumping on chicken's little red sofa. (I love how this is illustrated!) But Chicken, well, Chicken has a different perspective on the matter. She wants it to stop. NOW.
They hear her. They do. So they get ready to have fun in a different way...or do they? You be the judge!!!
Is everyone ready for more fun?! It's time to... Dance! Back and forth, back and forth. Let's all DANCE back and forth! On Chicken's sofa!
Highly recommended if you love funny books!
Text: 4 out of 5 Illustrations: 4 out of 5 Total: 8 out of 10
This one falls into the "I-can't-believe-I-haven't-reviewed-this-yet" category. It happens occasionally. I admit. I read a book. Love it. Read it to anyone and everyone I can. Brag about it to all my friends and family. And then somehow not get around to sitting down and typing up a review. Very sad when this happens. Even sadder--for me--because it means that I completely forgot to include it in my best-of-2009 posts. Because, you know, it so would have been topping the lists in the picture book category!
So, you might have guessed it already, but, I loved this one. I just didn't love it. I love, love, loved this one. Crazy about it. Think it's so clever, so right, so perfect. Loved the illustrations. Loved the simplicity of the text. The predictable genius of it all. A little girl. With her dad. Swinging on the swings. And loving every minute of it. (Loved the twist of this one too!)
This one almost begs to be read over and over again. And you know what, it holds up to multiple rereadings. You might even notice new things (in the illustrations, not the text) each time. Though this could just be me being slow to catch all the clever things hidden in plain sight.
I'm so happy to see this one will be a board book soon.
