It is so wonderful to share poetry with little children. The rhyme and rhythm feels natural to them, and they are happy to enjoy poems without needing to understand the exact meaning of every word. Theirs is an organic appreciation which anyone who loves the written word can appreciate.
Today's poetry title was written just for little children and it is delight to share.
Little poems for tiny ears
Today's poetry title was written just for little children and it is delight to share.
Little poems for tiny ears
Lin Oliver
Illustrated by Tomie dePaola
Poetry Picture Book
For babies and toddlers
Penguin, 2014, 978-0-399-16605-1
Sharing poetry with babies, crawlers and toddlers can be
so much fun as children who are this young have a natural affinity for the
sing-song cadences of verse. Even if they are too young to fully understand the
words, there is something about the sounds in poetry - which are similar to the
ebb and flow found in music - that little children love.
In this book Lin
Oliver gives his readers a delightful collection of poems that were written
with very young children in mind. On these pages we will meet a little girl who
sees a baby in the mirror and who marvels at the way in which the mirror baby
copies everything she does. Another little one tries walking and he is not
discouraged when he falls down. After all, if he does fall down all that
happens is that he lands “on my behind.”
Further along in
the book we encounter a little baby who is going out for a walk in his
stroller. From his vantage position, being pushed by a grownup, the baby sees
two cats and a dog. He sees a girl jogging and waves to her.
Other poems talk
about noses, toes and tongues. We hear about dogs, who “give me love that never
ends,” and cats, who are “silky, soft and furry.” There are poems about bath
time and diaper time, a poem about a blankie and a poem about “daddy’s beard.”
In short, on these pages readers will find poems that perfectly capture a
little child’s world.
Throughout the
book Tomie dePaola’s warm and cozy illustrations perfectly complement Lin
Oliver’s poems.
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