Jack Prelutsky loves finding ways to hook children on poetry, and he has been creating poems that serve this purpose for years now. In today's poetry title you will see how he helps children to see for themselves that poetry can be great fun.
It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles
It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles
Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by James Stevenson
Poetry
For ages 6 to 8
HarperCollins, 2000, 978-0060291945
Life is too short for us to spend our days doing serious
things and having serious thoughts all the time. A dose of silliness and
goofiness is required every day at least once. Some of us find it hard to make
the switch from being sensible to silly, which can be very trying. Where is
that funny bone hiding and how do we get it to do what it is supposed to do?
Thankfully for
everyone who needs help finding their inner silly self, Jack Prelutsky has put together
a collection of poems that are guaranteed to tickle the funny bone, thus bringing
the silliness that lies within us all to the surface. Every single poem in this
book is one hundred percent amusing, and readers can be sure that after a few
pages they will be feeling a lot less serious.
The poems begin
with poem called It’s Raining Pigs and
Noodles. If you like the idea of it raining pigs and noodles you should
read the rest of the poem where the poet describes how “Assorted prunes and
parrots / are dropping from the sky,” and these are followed by “a bunch of
carrots, / some hippopotami.” The poem wraps up with the words, “I like this so
much better / than when it’s raining rain.”
A couple of
pages later in The Chicken Club, we
meet some people who are afraid of everything and anything, which is why they
are members of this special club. The club members are afraid of thunder and
shadows, creepy crawlies, and even their own reflections. In fact they are
afraid of so many things that “we’ve even started clucking / and we’re sprouting
chicken wings.”
Children and
their grownups are going to have a grand time dipping into this book and sampling
a helping of poetry that will make them smile or chuckle.
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