Poetrees

Written and Illustrated by Douglas Florian

Beach Lane Books 2010

48 pages

Poetry

 

                               This book is not your regular book with poetry. Florian finds a very creative way to describe different types of trees while incorporating poetry. The reason I chose this book was because the title caught my attention and I wanted to see what the book was about. The author tells about several different types of trees such as oaks and coconut palms as well as the different parts of trees.

                         

      The illustrations in this story are very unique. Florian creates his illustrations collage style with  watercolors and gouache on primed paper bags. This makes the pages look very natural an earthy. The pictures are very beautiful and bring out the beautiful details of each tree.

                               This would be a good book to use during a science lesson on trees and the different elements of each different tree. This would also be a good example when showing your students different ways you can create poetry during writing. Students could also choose a creative word to describe a tree of their choice. This book has not received any awards.