#14- Recess, Rhyme, and Reason: A collection of Poems About Schools

Recess, Rhyme, and Reason: A collection of Poems About Schools

Compiled and Annotated by: Patricia M. Stockland

Illustrated by: Sara Rojo Perez

Compass Point Books

2004

Poetry

I chose this book because I thought it would be easy for every student to relate to it. This book is complied of numerous poems about school. It has topics like the school bus, playground, the first day of school, homework, math, and friends. It is focused around identifying the different elements in poetry like personification, concrete, compare and contrast, rhyme, rhythm, and so much more. The book has a “toolbox tip” on every page. It also has a glossary that tells you what each poetry word means.

The illustrations in this book look like they were drawn in water color and color pencil. The text is informally placed on the page around the pictures. The pictures are cartoon-like and are very simple. This book has a lot of negative space used on every page. The colors are pale and texture in the illustrations is not present in this book.

This book is appropriate for students in the third grade through the sixth grade. This is the ideal book to use when you are teaching your students poetry. It would be wonderful to use because each poem introduces another element of poetry. This book would also be great to use on the first day of school or about homework because the poems are specific to a certain topic. This book has not received any awards on its own but the authors have received several awards for their work with poetry individually.