Title: If I Ran
the School
Author: Bruce
Lansky (poems selected by)
Illustrator:
Stephen Carpenter & Mike Gordon
Publishing Company:
Scholastic
# of Pages: 31
Genre/Category:
Poetry
The main
reason I chose this book is because of the front page illustrations. It showed the student up front teaching the
class while the teachers are setting in the student desk. This book is made up
of twenty-four funny school poems. The poems are all about things that can
happen to kids while at school like ripping their pants, eating school lunches,
and getting F’s.
The
illustrations in this book are very different than they are in other books. The
pictures on the front and back page are in color, but the rest of the book is
black and white. Most of the pictures
are just small thing that you would see in a classroom. The illustrations were
hand drawn using pencil. They are very basic drawings and are not very good eye
catchers.
This book
would be appropriate for young children of different ages. The first few poems
in this book are very short and easy to read, but the last few are more
difficult and longer. This book would be good to get children interested in
poetry before teaching a poetry lesson. It can be good to let children know
that there are different kinds of poems. Some can be funny and then some can be
sweet and express love. This book could also be used at the beginning of the
day. I would read students a funny poem at the beginning of the school day to
help them get their day started in a fun way. This book could also be used as a
motivator to get children to read poems. This book has not received any awards.
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