Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems

I've been on plenty of car->tent camping trips. ?áI have some fond memories. ?áBut never was I as fully appreciative of the experience as this girl is. ?áMaybe if I'd read this first I'd be better primed. ?áAnd so, since I believe everyone needs time in the wilderness, away from digital devices etc., I recommend this lovely book to everyone. ?áThe pictures are nice, and support the text well. ?áThe poems are as accessible as prose, with the bonus of being a bit more structured than narration, with the vividness of poetry that is written with the TotTs.

I particularly enjoyed the picture of birds in a leafy tree, illumined by sunset after an afternoon rainstorm, illustrating this poem:

Rain Dance

It was dry
under these show more trees,
until a confetti of birds
in the wet leaves

danced
another
rain shower. show less

I loved these poems; perfect for kids & even for middle school. Simple enough to break down stereotypes that poetry is too difficult to write or understand, complex enough to delight & provide examples for studying poetic elements & devices, these poems include all aspects of the camping experience. I'm definitely buying a copy for home and school.

This is a wonderful collection of 30 poems about camping and being outdoors. The poems cover activities and subjects like fireflys, fishing, tents, walking in the forest and in caves. The illustrations are beautifully done and the poems are simple and yet thought provoking. These poems provide wonderful examples to children that they can write about their everyday experiences, and to be a writer, there doesn’t always need to be some crazy adventure involved. Sometimes it is the simple things that speak to us the most.

This collection of poems is about the adventures of camping. The cool part about this book is that some of the poems are in the shapes of the object that the poem is referring to. This is a perfect set of poems to introduce to children around third grade.

25 months - Borrowed this one right before going camping... thinking this would be a fun one to read before hand. O was not very into poetry after looking at a couple others so I read through this one looking for a few fun ones that I thought she would like. Most the poems start off interesting but seem to loose it by the end. I ended up not reading any of them to her. :(

Author: Kristine O'Connell George
Title: Toasting Marshmallows Camping Poems
Illustrator: Kate Kiesler
48 pages
Literary Genre: Poetry
Throughout this book there were 30 different poems all from the same author. They all had to do with something that you might find, see or do while you were camping out in the woods.
I think these poems were a little more serious. They weren't funny or didn't have any rhyme to them. I don't think a young child would enjoy these as much as some that have some humor to them.

This book is really a collection of poems about camping. It describes all the adventures that may happen on a camping trip. It utilizes beautiful illustrations that emphasize the meaning of the poems.