Winter Poems

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this poetry book for many reasons. First, Each poem was about winter and even though I hate winter, I found each poem to be comforting. For example, the poem, "Snow Toward Evening" was about how the sky turns grey and the days grow bitter and chill. This was comforting because it's exactly how winter is. Second, I loved the illustrations. They were subtle yet perfect for the poems. For example, the poem, "Night" has a simple illustration of a peaceful night and it goes perfectly with the poem. I think the overall message of the book to inform the reader of wonderfully written poems about winter.

Winter Poems offers a beautiful and diverse variety of words, many often birds (!)
and intricate, inviting, and intense paintings, even with a little doggie staring out at us.

I like best: Something Told the Wild Geese, Night, the Bells, Waiting for Birds,
Moon, and I Heard a Bird Sing.

Unwelcome were: A MERRY NOTE and THE BUCK IN THE SNOW.

The editor's note alone is worth a star. Rogasky chose poems that *almost* make me look forward to winter. Keeping this for (hypothetical) grandchildren, because my son like's Hyman's art almost as much as I do.

Great little selection of 25 poems about winter. I often read a few poems to my young son as his "bedtime book". He loves winter and while many books have poems of the season including a few for winter, just poems about winter is often just what he wants.
The illustrations are lovely and evidently based on real life scenes.

This would be good for an older group of students, that have been learning about poetry, and have begun to write and understand the structure of how to write a poem. It had many good, engaging poems that would be good examples for a class, of rhyming poems and free verse.A learning extension for this would be for students to pick a season that they really like and write a poem about it, like this book does.

This is a book full of different famous poems done by different authors. The common theme through all of the poems is the season of winter. It has fun short poems, that get its readers excited about the season. This book can be appreciated by all ages but it is mainly by the primary grades. I would use this in the classroom for discussing winter and for poetry.

Winter Poems would be a good book to introduce students to poetry. On top of that, as a teacher, you could do this during the winter and do activities along with it.