Limerick Comics

By Robert Hoyman

Book Overview

Winner of the 2023 Southern California Book Festival

Winner of the 2022 New England Book Festival for Poetry

Winner of the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Poetry, and Reviewer's Choice Award

Limerick Comics is a rare type of book that manages to educate, entertain, and enchant, all at once. It captures the timeless charm of witty limerick verse and anapest meter, while blending seamlessly with engaging nonfiction. The result is a playful collection that invites young readers to linger on each page to enjoy the humor of hyperbolic imagery, ponder inferences, and view the evocative details of each eye-catching illustrated panel.. It's a joyful reminder that learning can be as imaginative as it is enlightening.

The 32-page book offers lighthearted original limericks on a diverse range of history and science topics, accompanied by intriguing facts, presented in entertaining comics. For parents, teachers, and librarians the integration of poetry and nonfiction provides educators with endless cross-curricular applications along with a valuable resource for the development of fluency and prosody.

Add this playful book to home, classroom, school or public library collections, and nurture an appreciation of poetry, science, history, civics, and art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732818606
• ISBN13: 9781732818606
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Robert Hoyman
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7