Rainy Rainy Saturday (Greenwillow Read-Alone)
by Jack Prelutsky
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Fourteen humorous poems about the pleasures and pains of a rainy Saturday.Tags
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Appropriate grade level for this book of poems would be 1st grade to 3rd grade, this book has bigger text and pictures. This book hasn't received any awards. This book has poems about a rainy saturday and things that you could do/the children have done because it is raining and they cannot go outside and play. This book is really cute and I think that in the classroom children could create a story/poem for what they like to do when it's raining and it's the weekend, or even what they like to do when they go home from school and it's raining. You could also do a lot of art projects around rain and have the children bring in their rainboots and raincoats.
a combination of poems about different things that happen during a rainy day inside
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Jack Prelutsky, born on September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, is primarily known as a poet for children but he is also a gifted musician, actor, photographer, sculptor and potter. Prelutsky studied at Hunter College for two years. He proposed to his future wife, Carolynn, on the day they met; she accepted the next day. While growing up in show more Brooklyn, Prelutsky studied voice at The High School of Music and Art in New York and first planned to be an opera singer. However, he decided he did not have the drive to sing opera, and he became a folk singer. Later he tried his hand at drawing. For fun, he wrote some short poems and made some drawings, which became his first publication. He has since published numerous books of illustrated poetry and also provided illustrations for books by other writers, including many in translation. Prelutsky never condescends to his young readers. He deals in verse with many imaginative creatures, but he also writes about people and problems such bullies, school, and fear of the dark. He is aware of the sound of his words and likes to perform his poetry to the accompaniment of the guitar. He visits schools and libraries to perform his work. Jack Prelutsky is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1977 The Children's Book Council honored him for Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. His other award-winners are The Mean Old Mean Hyena, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight, and The New Kid on the Block. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children's Poet Laureate award. His book Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) won the 2007 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award of the Washington State Book Awards in the Picture Book category. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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