Boom! Bellow! Bleat!
Animal Poems for Two or More Voices
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
This playful collection of poems--peppered with an astounding variety of animal sounds--is meant to be read aloud together.
These poems for two or more voices explore the myriad sounds animals make--from a frog's jug-o-rum to a fish's boom! to an elephant's bark. Laced with humor, the poems are a delight to read aloud and cover all major classes of animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, even a crustacean! Readers will learn how to estimate the temperature by counting a cricket's chirps and see how creatures make sounds at specific pitches and frequencies, so that they can be heard despite other noise around them. Extensive end notes provide more information on the animals and how and why they make the sounds they do. Written by noted children's poet Georgia Heard, this is an ideal collection for parents and children to share, or for a fun, interactive classroom read-aloud.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Animals of many kinds describe the sounds that they make in poems intended to be read aloud by two or more readers. Frogs and toads set the record straight about the sounds they make: "I am a frog./ I am a toad./ We don't say ribbit!/ We say.../quonk / waaa/ jug-o-rum/ beeeee/ peep." Other animal subjects include fish, a rattlesnake ("Stay/ away;/ I'm/ warning/ you"). DeWitt's digital collages show fine detail in the animals' features, depicting how their physical characteristics range as widely as their sounds. The use of onomatopoeia all but guarantees a lively group reading experience, while Heard's back matter includes engaging facts about the biodiverse subjects. Ages 5 9.
