BIBLIOGRAPHY: Franco, Betsy. 2009. A Curious Collection of Cats. Ill. by Michael Wertz. Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press. ISBN 9781582462486
PLOT SUMMARY: Visual poems about cats
CRITICAL ANALYSIS:
A fun poetry book about cats, their characteristics and their every-day adventures. A collection of concrete poems, poems that form a shape, about cats is visually stimulating yet may be hard to read at times because of the shapes. It may be confusing in which way to poem is to be read, but that may be the fun in reading this book. Wertz's illustrations truely invoke the meaning of each poem. With the way the poems are written it is difficult to determine meter, sound even language, but the physical imagery is enticing to a reader at any age. Different kinds of poems such as haiku and limmerick, are introduced between fighting cats and sleeping cats.
A fun poetry book about cats, their characteristics and their every-day adventures. A collection of concrete poems, poems that form a shape, about cats is visually stimulating yet may be hard to read at times because of the shapes. It may be confusing in which way to poem is to be read, but that may be the fun in reading this book. Wertz's illustrations truely invoke the meaning of each poem. With the way the poems are written it is difficult to determine meter, sound even language, but the physical imagery is enticing to a reader at any age. Different kinds of poems such as haiku and limmerick, are introduced between fighting cats and sleeping cats.
AWARDS AND REVIEW EXCERPTS:
HONOR - Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
From Booklist
"Once kids get the feel of how to follow the lines--up and down or in curving jumps pr around the page borders--they will have fun with the playful images."---Hazel Rochman, Booklist March 15, 2009.
HONOR - Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
From Booklist
"Once kids get the feel of how to follow the lines--up and down or in curving jumps pr around the page borders--they will have fun with the playful images."---Hazel Rochman, Booklist March 15, 2009.
CONNECTIONS:
This book may be used in a middle/ high school poem themed unit. It can be use to illustrate to young readers that poetry is not boring.
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