
Welcome to the second of five "My Poetry Book" Kids' Poetry Challenge post link-ups! In celebration of National Poetry month, we're challenging other parents and kids to explore the world of poetry together.
Each week in April we hope you'll consider reading a poem with your child and then encourage your child to create an illustration based on the poem. This type of creative activity helps your child more thoroughly understand the poem and interpret it in his or her own way. If you would like to participate, please refer the original Kids' Poetry Challenge post and read the guidelines.
***Note: A few readers have mentioned that their child does not really like drawing or is not old enough to draw anything recognizable. If you prefer, please feel free to just post a favorite poem you shared with your child this week. Remember to only post a portion of the poem to avoid copyright issues.
We've tried to make it very simple for everyone to participate. Reading a poem together only takes a few minutes. The link-up will remain open all week long. Post the picture and accompanying text any day of the week and, if you have the time, stop by and visit the other participants' posts.

Of all the poems in the book, my daughter likes Mary Ann Hoberman's "Rabbit" the best. Perhaps she likes it best because she can read it herself (certainly not because of the beet). Hoberman often plays with words in her poems and pays much attention to the arrangement of the words and the shape of the poem. With "Rabbit" Hoberman puts all the "bits" in a line.


The same rabbit poem also appears in another of our favorite poetry books, The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Betty Fraser. The full text of "Rabbit" can be viewed in a book preview at Google Books.
I'm linking up to Poetry Friday! This week's Poetry Friday is hosted by Madigan Reads. Head over to her blog for more poetry posts and consider joining the Poetry Friday link-up.
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8 comments:
Love this idea of a poetry book! I'm going to have to try this so I can start linking up! Thanks for visiting my blog, I hope you'll come back soon!
Angie @ http://inmysparetime2.blogspot.com
Poetry Speaks to Children looks like a great book! I'll have to look into acquiring that one for our collection.
That Mary Ann Hoberman poem is GREAT! I love your dd's picture, too.
Thanks so much for hosting this, Janelle. We're having a good time with the artwork!
We had the book, but I quickly found that most of the poems are a bit beyond my daughter's age. We love Bill Martin's Big Book of Poetry that is also wonderfully illustrated. I love your daughter's drawing!
@Raising a Happy Child - This is a book kids can grow into. There are only a few poems that might interest preschoolers, but for those that have kids that vary in age, this is a very good choice for the home library. I read about 1/4 of the poems in the book to my kindergarten aged daughter. The rest we'll save until she is older.
My youngest has one of these too! I love what they do with the children these days.
That is the cutest rabbit drawing. I'll have to see if I can interest my little ones in participating. They love reading, poetry included, so it shouldn't be too hard!
I love your daughter's picture...so cute!
Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll have to look for that one.
Love it! My daughter has been very into poetry lately. I will check these out!
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