Written by Alice Schertle
Illustrated by Petra Mathers
HMH Books for young readers 2009
40 pages
Poetry
This book is a collection of poems describing different animal characters' articles of clothing. The poems vary from Violet's Hiking Hat to Clyde's costume. The lines rhyme at the end of every other sentence. An example of one of the poems is from Bertie's Shoelaces, "Good old Bertie, he let's us hang around. It doesn't bother Bertie when we drag along the ground. We're not uptight, as our Bertie buddy knows. We're hang loose laces, and we don't do bows!" The reason I chose this book was because the illustrations are very bright and pretty.
The illustrations negative space on the page is white, which really makes each illustration pop. Some illustrations in the story have text on one page and an illustration on the opposite while other pages contain both on the same page. The medium is crayons and watercolors. All of the critters and their different types of clothing are created with very bright, deep colors.
This collection of poetry could be incorporated when talking about words that rhyme. It could also be used when discussing adjectives and what the job of an adjective is. Your students could pick out good adjectives that describe a word well and put a sticky note of that word on a poster. It could also be a good example of showing your class how to make your writing more interesting and how writing can be created in many different ways. This book has not received any honors.
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