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Works by Deborah Ruddell

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A world of birds unfolds in 22 vivid poems that capture the unique personalities of birds from backyard bluejays to toucans.
 
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BLTSbraille | 7 other reviews | Oct 10, 2021 |
This book contains a variety of poems with a central forest theme. The poems are easy to read and the illustrations are detailed in a good manner. This book would be great for children interested in poetry and the forest. I really enjoyed reading the poems.
 
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DejaBri | 25 other reviews | Nov 12, 2017 |
This book is a collection of a short poems. All of the poems are based in the forest. The animals found in the forest each have a short poem. There is a poem about a salamander who wouldn't hurt a fly. Another poem is about a raccoon who sees his reflection in a watery mirror. This book is a good example of poetry because they are short rhyming stories. Age Primary The media used in this book was watercolor.
 
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RachelDeardorff | 25 other reviews | Apr 20, 2017 |
Summary

This is a book with many short poems about animals in the forest. Each poem is dedicated to a different animal including skunks, beavers, birds, frogs and deer.

Critique

Each poem is very unique and presents each animal in a delightful way in spite of what it is saying about the animal. The authors manage to include things like the smell of a skunk as a part of woodsy cologne and make a snail race sound fast paced and exciting. It is an easy to read book for children and contains lots of figures of speech. In this book you can almost smell, feel and hear the forest in a pleasant kind of way.

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P3. Figure of Speech - metaphor
P4. Figure of Speech - personification

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Capitalize on the authors' use of figures of speech to have a figure of speech scavenger hunt.
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deeprincess | 25 other reviews | Sep 19, 2016 |

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