GENRE: This is a great example of poetry, because it is a collection of pieces that are rhythmical and are made up of figurative language. The sounds and meanings of the language he uses provide vivid images of the animals he writes about, alongside the painted illustrations he includes. The poems are fairly short, but rhyme, metaphor, simile, and personification are used in one or more of the pieces.

ART/MEDIA: gouache on primed brown paper bags

Mammalabila is a book that contains several poems. Each poem is written in different forms such as concrete, narrative, and lyric. Each poem is about a different kind of animal.

This book was interesting and fun to read. It introduced different kinds of animals and each poem told something about the animal. I really liked how the animals were not common animals you hear about everday.

You could use this book to show students the different ways to write poetry, and show them that poetry can be fun.You couls use this book to talk about the geography of he world and where the different types of animals come from.

This book has short poems about different kinds of mammals. There are also very simple pictures, much like water color paintings.
My favorite part is how the poems rhyme, even though poetry doesn't have to. The best poem is the one about the lemurs because it is a great example of concrete poetry. The words wind around like a lemur jumping around
After reading this book to a classroom, the children could talk about their favorite animals. Then they could draw a picture of that animal and write a poem to go with it.

Mammalabilia is a collection of poems by Florian. The common thread throughout the book is that all the poems are about animals that are mammals. There are several different types of poems including concrete, lyric, and free verse. One of the concrete poems is about a porcupine; it portrays the animals in its shape but also paint a picture with the words through rhythm and rhyme.

I really enjoyed this collection of poems because it provided examples of different types of poetry. The different forms made the reading interesting and fun. The animal subjects of many of the animals were various species from all over the world, so kids would gain information about animals while learning that poetry can be fun.

On of my immediate ideas for using this book in the classroom was to have the children create their own classroom concrete poetry book. The kids could us the poems in this book as inspiration, and they would be able to be creative while creating their works of art. I would also use the different poems in a unit over the different kinds of mammals throughout the world.

Collection of very short poems regarding animals. Great wordplay, good illustrations - definitely check it out. ( )