The HedgeHog and Other Selected Poems

By Carl Scott Harker

How do you get children to read poetry - with fun poetry to read

Give them a book of poems that makes them laugh and tickles their imaginations: Poems about mermaids, hedgehogs, frogs and cats eating pizza; poems about nature, dyslexia, neurons, hope, bats, spiders, Voyager 1 and dolphins; poems about samurai and ghosts, sunsets, bees and wishing upon a star... and make sure each poem is illustrated.

The author of this work has published many books of poetry written for a general audience. In reviewing those previous books, he realized they contained several poems he would have enjoyed finding when he was ten or so. He decided to collect those poems and write some new ones to provide a book, "The HedgeHog" just right for reading by children ten years and older.

This book contains silly poems such as "What Does A Spider Mean Within My Dream?" and "The Cat and the Day of the Special Fog" and more serious poems like "The Little Girl with Dyslexia" and "White Snow Like Fur Covers a Tree in Yosemite."

Good poems provide clues to their meaning and incentives to read one line and then the next and then the next... And when you have reached the last line they provide a reward - which may be laughter, or wisdom, or a story, or a better understanding of yourself, and sometimes all of the above.

The poems in this book are good poems - and I think children (and adults, too) will have fun reading them

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CFCPDVJ1
• ISBN13: 9798857110577
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"