Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-2nd grade. This poem book offers s wide range of poems that will definitely catch the students interest in at least one poem. ( )

This is a collection of poems for children illustrated by Caldecott Medal artists. They are divided into theme sections, each illustrated by a different artist - weather, spooky poems, story poems, animals, spirits, nonsense poems, haiku poems, and thoughts and feelings. The poems range from ancient to contemporary and poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash. ( )

An updated collection of the originally-titled “Poems Children Will Sit Still For: a Selection for the Primary Grades” with Caldecott Medal winning-artists illustrating each section:

“Fun with Rhymes” illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
“Mostly Weather” illustrated by Marcia Brown
“Spooky Poems” illustrated by Margot Zemach
“Story Poems” illustrated by Maurice Sendak
“Mostly Animals” illustrated by Arnold Lobel
“Mostly People” illustrated by Marc Simont
“Mostly Nonsense” illustrated by Richard Egielski
“Seeing, Feeling, Thinking” illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
“In a Few Words” illustrated by Marcia Brown

The poems run the gamut from silly to intriguing; Pauline Clarke’s “My Name Is . . .” is sure to delight young readers with its silly names like Sluggery-wuggery, Jiggery-pokery, and Riddle-me-re while Robert Frost’s classic “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” will evoke thoughts of snowy days and winter woods. Some, like Langston Hughes’s “Winter Moon” or Carl Sandberg’s “Arithmetic” will be instantly recognizable to readers; others, like Karla Kuskin’s “I Have a Lion” or Richard Armour’s “Pachycephalosaurus” are sure to become a young reader’s new-found favorites.

Read it [aloud, please] for the words and the rhymes, explore the pictures . . . this is a book to return to again and again and again.

Several indexes follow the poems: Index of Titles, Index of First Lines, Index of Authors; a brief piece about each of the illustrators is also included.

Highly recommended. ( )

Genre: Poetry
Age: Primary
Review:
This book is a collection of poems selected by different people and illustrated by nine Caldecott Medal artists. The poems range from cute animal poems to poems about seasons and other things.
This falls under the genre of poetry because it is a book filled with poems and poetry.
Use:
1) Read one per day in class as a starter for each day
2) Look at all the different illustrations made by different artists
Ill. Media: Variety of different methods ( )

This poetry book provides poems for all elementary aged children. This book offers a wide variety of poems that are interesting to all children. This would be a great book to use when teaching poetry and rhyming in a classroom setting. ( )

Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. With such a wide variety of poems children are such to find something they will enjoy reading. My favorite poem from the entire book would have to be by Beatric Schenk de Regniers called "If we walked on our hands." This particular poem if filled with lots of humor and rhyming schemes that children will easily pick up on and find hilarious. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-5th. ( )

I really enjoyed this collection of poetry because it was written by so many different authors. Each poem is unique and different. The book itself is divided by topic, and there is definitely at least one poem in the collection that every student would enjoy. For example, there is a section that is solely dedicated to Haikus, but another section that focuses on animals. The illustrations are also wonderful, as they were done by different Caldecott Medal artists. ( )

Great to use to incorporate poetry in the classroom each day. Also, can be used with an illustrator study as students will recognize the work in this book. 9 Caldecott artists work inside. ( )

A collection of poems by a variety of well-known poets with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists best describes "Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems". The illustrations accompanying the poems are magnificent. White has cleverly woven the poems into the illustrations in a seamless fashion which brings the poetry to life. Also to be commended is her manner of organizing the poems by type of poetry. She has brilliantly grouped all of the poems pertaining to the subjects of weather, animal, and people together. She also grouped all the poems that rhyme and the nonsense poems together. I personally enjoyed the presentation of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" because of Frost's rich and colorful imagery.
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
to stop without a farmhouse near.
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.”
This is an excellent collection of 100 unforgettable poems from the most beloved and brilliant children’s authors. I have a language arts teacher who constantly checks this book out to use as samples for her students. Many of the poems in this literary collection are selected by students for the Poem in My Pocket contest which is held at our school. ( )

Summary:
This is a good poetry book of all kinds of children's poems. One of them is "what they said." It is about all the farm animals getting together and talking to each other. Some animals want to have a spree, but the dog said bow-wow it is to late now. Another one is a pig tale. This one is about Jane Higgins having five piggins. They all kept dying and at the end of the story she had no piggins left.

Personal Reaction:
This is a good poetry book. Especially one to keep in the classroom, because it has so many in the book about all different kinds of subjects. I had one like this when I was little and I just loved to read it.

Classroom extensions:
1. Read when talking about poetry
2. Have them pick their favorite one and write why it is in a poem.

Summary: Simply put this is a poem about time and how fast it can get way from you. Or how slowly it can creep by like a snail with his house on his head. This talks about time as it is something that you should value as you don't know how much or how little time you have.

Reaction: Honestly I chose this poem because I thought it was rather funny and true. It reminds me of how much time I could have spent and should have spent with my family members.

Extentions:
1. I think to teach a math lesson on time itself would be useful as some children have trouble grasping the concept.
2. Having the children write their own poems about time something like Time Is....
3. Give children little cardboard clocks to practice on at their own desks.

Summary: The poem I read was about weather. It talks about how whether it is hot or cold or spring or summer or fall that any weather is better than no weather at all. It could be snowing or blowing a hurricane that the weather is important no matter how it arrives.

Reaction: I think this poem would be perfect for a classroom in southwest Oklahoma as we don't get much weather here at all. It's either hot and muggy or crazy cold and it's hard to find days that are just right. Simply because anyone that lives here knows the weather changes every five minutes or so they say.

Extentions:
1. A weather unit how weather affects the area the students live in.
2. Have students draw a weather cycle how rain falls and then is evaporated students could draw the process.
3. Depending on the season the students could measure the amount of rain or snow depending on where they are. That could be a math lesson as well.

Poem 1: A Pig Tale-James Reeves
Summary:
A short poem about how a woman loses all of her pigs.

Personal Reaction:
I thought this was sad, I don't think it is something I would read to young children.

Poem 2: Beginning on Paper-Ruth Krauss
Summary:
A short poem about a girl who is starting to write her name everywhere.

Personal Reaction:
It was cute, I think to read to kids starting to write they might see that writing your name is fun.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1)Read the writing poem when starting to really practice writing to show that it is fun and you can practice almost anywhere.
2)Use the whole book to pick a poem with the topics you are teaching and introduce the students to poetry.

A Pig Tale
By James Reeves

Summary

This was a poem about Jane Higgins and how she losses all her piggins.

Personal Reaction

It was a funny rhyme about how she loses her pigs but it's kind of sad at the end.

Until I Saw the Sea
By Lilian Moore

Summary

It talks about how the person discovered the sea and how it has different characteristics.

Personal Reaction

This would be a good poem to start out when learning about the sea and how the sun, wind, and everything can reflect it.

Classroom Extension Ideas

1. Learn about pigs and their natural habitat
2. Learn about the sea

Eletelephony is the best poem ever written. ( )

Standard 4: Applying English Language Conventions
Overarching Idea: Students apply the conventions of standard English in oral, written and visual communication.
Guiding Question: How do we use the English language appropriately to speak and write?
Component Statements:
4.1 Students use knowledge of their language and culture to improve competency in English.
4.2 Students speak and write using standard language structures and diction appropriate to audience and task.
4.3 Students use standard English for composing and revising written text ( )

Summary: This book ranges from ancient to contemporary poems. It includes spooky poems, such as "The Pumpkin" by Robert Graves. This is a spooky little poem about a "resurrected" pumpkin after it was supposed to have been sliced up for a pie. This book also includes story poems, such as "The Gingerbread Man" by Rowena Bennett. This is a poem about a runaway gingerbread man that eventually gets eaten by a fox at the end of the poem.

Personal Reaction: I like the variety of poems included throughout this book. It has some good poems I've never heard of as well as the ones that I remember from my own childhood. For example, I remember "Amelia Bedelia", which still makes me smile at how the character takes everything literally.

Classroom Extension Ideas: 1) After reading "The Pumpkin", I could have the class plant their own pumpkin seeds in a small container (i.e., milk carton) that they will later take home. 2) After reading "The Gingerbread Man" (probably around Christmas), I could have the class work together to decorate one big gingerbread man and then afterwards, of course, we could eat it.

This superb collection of 128 poems, rhymes, and bits of nonsense is illustrated by nine Caldecott Medal artists. In this anthology of poems, children will enjoy the bright pictures and engaging verses, and teachers and parents will enjoy the categorized chapters. This book would be great for thematic units, such as weather.

Children of all ages can enjoy this great book of poems. The are on categories, spooky, animals, funny, rhymining, very entertaining. Great illustrations

Sing a Song of Popcorn Every Child’s Book Of Poem selected by nine Caldecott Medal artists Marcia Brown, Leo and Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Trina Schart Hyman, Arnold Lobel, Maurice Sendak, Marc Simont and Margot Zemach. This book has a variety of poems. Starting on page 13 until 36 are poems about weather. There is a poem on rain and clouds and snow. There is a poem on the first snow, on snowflakes and one called The More it Snows. It is a good book to read to children on all ages. ( )

Characters:
· Various-

Notes:
o Fun with Rhymes p. 3
o Mostly Weather p. 13
o Spooky Poems p. 39
o Story poems p. 49
o Mostly animals p. 61
o Mostly people p. 93
o Mostly nonsense p. 103
o Seeing, feeling, thinking p. 113
o In a few words p. 127

Subjects/topics/themes: poetry,

Related titles: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury

Annotation: In this anthology of poems, children will enjoy the bight pictures and engaging verses, and teachers and parents will enjoy the categorized chapters. This book would be great for thematic units, such as weather. Illustrated by 9 Caldecott Medal winning artists.

Mary Quattlebaum (Children's Literature)
In the introduction to this book, the editor says the title was chosen to "make clear that this was a joyous collection that belonged in every home with a child in it." Indeed, the poems and wordplay within are as lively as popcorn, and the illustrations provide a feast for the eyes, if not for the palate. The poems, selected by Scholastic editors de Regniers, Eva Moore, Mary Michaels White, and Jan Carr, are arranged into nine sections, with such titles as "Fun with Rhymes," "Mostly Nonsense," "Story Poems," and "Mostly People." Each section is illustrated by a Caldecott Medal winner, with Trina Schart Hyman's exuberant kids, Arnold Lobel's expressive animals, and Maurice Sendak's wacky creations frolicking across the pages. Leo and Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, and Marc Simont also lend their pens, brushes, sense of color, and considerable talents to this collection. Especially beautiful are Marcia Brown's impressionistic watercolors for the poems in "Mostly Weather" and "In a Few Words." To get into the Halloween spirit, try making a batch of popcorn balls and reading the section on "Spooky Poems," awash with Margot Zemach's tricky bats, snickery witches, sickle moons, and one disgruntled owl. 1988, Scholastic, $18.95 and $16.89. Ages 5 up.

NA

808.81

Mary Quattlebaum (Children's Literature)
In the introduction to this book, the editor says the title was chosen to "make clear that this was a joyous collection that belonged in every home with a child in it." Indeed, the poems and wordplay within are as lively as popcorn, and the illustrations provide a feast for the eyes, if not for the palate. The poems, selected by Scholastic editors de Regniers, Eva Moore, Mary Michaels White, and Jan Carr, are arranged into nine sections, with such titles as "Fun with Rhymes," "Mostly Nonsense," "Story Poems," and "Mostly People." Each section is illustrated by a Caldecott Medal winner, with Trina Schart Hyman's exuberant kids, Arnold Lobel's expressive animals, and Maurice Sendak's wacky creations frolicking across the pages. Leo and Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, and Marc Simont also lend their pens, brushes, sense of color, and considerable talents to this collection. Especially beautiful are Marcia Brown's impressionistic watercolors for the poems in "Mostly Weather" and "In a Few Words." To get into the Halloween spirit, try making a batch of popcorn balls and reading the section on "Spooky Poems," awash with Margot Zemach's tricky bats, snickery witches, sickle moons, and one disgruntled owl. 1988, Scholastic, $18.95 and $16.89. Ages 5 up. ( )