In library this week, I have been teaching my 1st and 2nd grade classes about the poet extraordinaire, Shel Silverstein. Many of the students have seen his famous books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree and A Light in the Attic. His poems are so funny and timeless. The students thoroughly enjoyed "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" and the poem "Dreadful" about someone eating a baby. Yeah, the kids could not stop laughing at that one.
Doug Florian is another author whose poems are enjoyable, but I did not have any of his books in the media center. Must work on getting some.
