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Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems (2014)

by J. Patrick Lewis(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0375866906 (ISBN13: 9780375866906)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Schwartz & Wade

review 1: This book is a poem book based on automobiles. However, it is not just your normal cars. This book talks about the fish car, the dragonwagon, the balloon car, the banana split car and many more interesting and very different and unusual types of cars. This book could be used in a text set on either transportation or poems. It could be used in a transportation unit for a fun, fiction poem book. It could be used in a poem unit as a set type of poem, because all of the poems in the book are set up very similarly. It is also a good book to have in your classroom for kids to just pick up and read. I believe that many students would be interested in this type of book, because young kids seem to always be interested in cars, and this is a fun twist on cars that they are use... mored to.
review 2: Twenty-two poems, one which introduces readers to this poetry collection's focus, predict what the cars of the future may look like. Some are gigantic while others are large enough to barely fit their drivers. Some ("The Paper Car") are quite disposable while others ("High-Heel Car"--I won't be driving that one) owe their design innovation to women's footwear. There are even cars that look like eggs, hot dogs, and banana splits. The talented poets rely on whimsical word play and imagination for their designs and their rhymes, and the accompanying illustrations, created in pencil and watercolor and then digitally colored, are imaginative companions to the text. As someone who has spent more than her fair share stuck in traffic jams on the way to and from work in New Orleans, I long to buy "Rubber-Band Car," described thusly: "Bouncing, bounding down the road / Like a leaping, beeping toad. / Made from giant rubber bands / (Very pliant in your hands). / It jumps over traffic jams, / And obstructions gently rams" (p. 36). Yep, it sounds like the perfect vehicle for me. It's clear that the two poets were well fueled with humor and imagination as they crafted these humorous poems. less

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