Written by: Eloise Greenfield
Illustrated by: Jan Spivey Gilchrist
This book is recommended for children ages 4+. I would cap the '+' on the age of 7. The reason for this is because I read this book to my second grade buddy and she struggled to keep her interest in this story. I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs is a poem book that lists short poems (4-5 sentences in length) about different make-believe dinosaurs... such as: shoppersaurus, trickosaurus, and smellasaurus. I appreciated the creativeness the author and illustrator used throughout making this book.
I believe this book would be a good way to start a poetry unit with in a younger elementary grade because the poems are simple yet creative. However, I do have one caution: all the poetry presented in this book rhyme. I believe that it is almost 'stereotypical' for one to think that a poem has to rhyme. If I do decide to use this book in the future I will want to make sure that I make a point to the class that poetry doesn't have to rhyme. In order to help prove this, I would read un-rhyming poetry to the class perhaps from another book.
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