A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets

by Ralph Fletcher

Book Overview

It's easy to make one,
lying on your back in the newest snow.
You move your arms like wings.
Later you forget about your creation,
go inside for a mug of hot chocolate.
That's when she rises from the snow
takes a feathery breath, tries out her wings.

So begins a poem about making a snow angel, but it might also refer to the mysterious way that a poem comes into being and takes on a life of its own. In this new collection,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590783530
• ISBN13: 9781590783535
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Wordsong
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great poetry

My students loved the poetry in this book. Fun, serious, all types! Great for imagery!

poems for guys

If you have a hard-hearted middle school boy who might be a poet, this book is just the thing to get them writing. Illustrations are terrific, the poems are funny, real, from the heart, not a sappy one in the batch. For teachers struggling to get boys to write poems, this will surely do the trick. Use it with Jack Prelutsky's new book, READ A RHYME WRITE A RHYME and you'll have the whole class turning out poems.

INCREDIBLE

thats the word that discribes the illustration in this book. it's a must buy!