POETRY - Silver Seeds – Paul Paolilli & Dan Brewer

Paintings by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher

32 pgs.

2001, Penguin

HC $15.99

“Ages 5-9”

Endpapers:  Dark green

Title page: Cream, center 3 inches is a square of green with a hummingbird sippi9ng nectar from a purple, petunia-like flower.

Super acrostic poems -- Acrostic poems that REALLY make sense –finally, some great models for kids (and me!)

Down goes the moon

And up comes the sun,

Welcoming the

New day.

Sliding through the window,

Underneath the door,

Nudging us out to play.

Tiny hands

Reaching up from the

Earth, tickling an

Enormous

Sky.

Bobbing

Up and down;

Twinkling

Through the air

Ever so gently,

Roaming among the

Flowers

Landing lightly on

Your shoulder.

                (I’m going to make a poster for this poem RIGHT NOW!!!)

Creamy scoops of ice cream

Lying

Out

Under a

Dreamy blue

Sky.

Okay, okay, I won’t put all of them.  But this is another poetry book that should be in EVERY classroom library, young or old!