Poetry Book Blog #1

Title: The wonky Donkey
Author: Craig Smith
Illustrator: Katz Cowley
Publisher: Scholastic
Copyright: 2009
Number of Pages: 24
Genre: Poetry

 

     The Wonky Donkey is funny and entertaining book about a donkey. As you flip through each page, the donkey continues to grow in what he is with crazy descriptions. Each description that is added on is another word that rhymes with all the others. This book is a definite attention grabber and funny to read as well.

     The illustrations from this book are cute and generally follow the same color scheme each page. All the pictures are fun, entertaining, and welcoming. They appear to be like pencil drawn and have a cute way of drawing in the readers.

Grade:1st Grade
Content Area: English Language Arts 

     To use this book in the classroom, the teacher could have students working on rhyming words. The teacher could read the book and then have sections of the book printed off to hand to each student. With these book parts, the students could highlight the words that they think rhyme. For gifted students, the teacher could have them come up with words that continue the rhyming scheme. Overall, this is a creative and fun book to use for pulling out rhyming.