Overview

Welcome to The Magical World of Poetry - a joyful, family-friendly poetry collection and writing guide created to help young readers fall in love with poems and feel confident creating their own. The Magical World of Poetry is a joyful, kid-friendly poetry collection and ""how-to"" guide designed to help children read, understand, and write poems with confidence. Inside you'll find 70+ poems across kid-loved themes like animals, sports, food, weather, holidays, and fantasy, paired with charming illustrations created by young artists. But this is more than a poetry book, it's a poetry workshop in disguise. Young readers learn engaging poetry forms, including acrostic, cinquain, concrete (shape) poetry, free verse, haiku, and rhyme, plus a helpful glossary of poetic devices like alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, onomatopoeia, and personification. This uplifting poetry book encourages creativity, vocabulary development, fluency, and confidence, while keeping content clean, age-appropriate, and encouraging. If you are looking for poetry for kids, a poetry writing workbook feel, or a classroom-friendly book that helps students read poems and write poems with joy, this collection is a wonderful fit. Perfect for: Ages 8-12 (and up), independent reading, class poetry collection, homeschool educators, and family read-alouds of ALL AGES! Classrooms, homeschooling, poetry units, writing centers, and library programs will love this quirky poetry collection Kids who love Shel Silverstein-style fun, plus kids who need a gentle, guided entry into writing poetry Open the book. Try a poem. Then write your own magic.

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9781971855004

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Reviews

""Fun subject matter, a variety of styles, and a fresh quirky vibe make The Magical World of Poetry loads of lyrical fun."" -Brian P. Cleary, Author of Eating My Words and 128 Other Poems

Author Information

Sandy Whiting has been penning poems and stories for as long as she can remember. She is a speech-language pathologist and has previously published two other books with Monarch Educational Services. Sandy loves reading and writing, and she leads a creative writing club (see the book dedication!) and a middle grade book club at her local library. Sandy lives in Western New York with her husband, two kids (aka awesome illustrators!), and two cats.

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