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Thorpe C of E Primary
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Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

What the book club told us about the book:

A pocket sized book of short illustrated poems full of humour and mad-cap themes of food and animals.
Author: A.F. Harrold
Illustrator: Jack Viant
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback (92 pages)

Our School Review

What our pupils thought

“I liked the book because the pages were numbered with how many word there were in the poem. My favourite was Remembery.”

“I liked how the book was funny and I enjoyed reading it.”

“The poems made me happy and made me laugh.”

Out of 5 stars, the pupils give this book:

About the book club:

The Review Crew meet weekly and is made up of 12 children from Y4-Y6. We watch author videos of new releases and share what we have been reading at home. We have also just begun to do First Chapter reviews of newly released books to decided whether we want to purchase these books for our library.

What our educators thought

“I am a big believer of poetry being super accessible to all children. I found this collection to be particularly appealing as a result of it’s slightly unusual format. I really enjoyed the introductory section and felt that it promoted poetry in a different light to any child reading this book. In fact it has given me an idea for a class activity to create Poetry Postcards to exchange with another local school.

I also thought that the “Thematic Contents Index” was a fun and interesting way to introduce children to using an index and the fact that the introduction explained how to use the index was very useful!

The illustrations were particularly fun and engaging and related very well to the tone of the poetry, although I would have loved to have seen more of them.”

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