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Pizza, Pigs, And Poetry: How To Write A Poem (2008)

by Jack Prelutsky(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061434485 (ISBN13: 9780061434488)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Greenwillow Books

review 1: Jack Prelutsky is an author of children's poetry and in this book, he explains where he gets his ideas for poems and his writing process. Each chapters has stories from his childhood or experiences that he has had through out his life and how because of some of these things that have happened to him, it inspired him to write a poem. Like the story of how his mother isn't a very good cook and she forgot the meat loaf and burnt, he turned it into a poem.Although I know this book is for children, I think anyone who writes poetry could learn a thing or two from. Mr. Prelutsky gives good advice and writing tips. I know I'll be using some of them.It's a great book. I recommend it to anyone who writes poetry or wants to write poetry.
review 2: I L-O-V-E this book! Jac... morek Prelutsky discusses his writing processes in developing his poetry, and where he finds inspiration for topics. Each chapter focuses on varying aspects of writing poetry, and is laid out in a way that can be easily incorporated into lesson plans for poetry writing workshops. Each chapter is also highlighted with some of Prelutsky's famous works as examples showing the writing aspects he is covering in that chapter. He also invites the reader to exercise some of the techniques he covers at the end of each section. I especially enjoyed his example of observing something from nature, and writing as many things about it that you can and turn that information into a poem. This is perfect for integrating science with literature. The book also includes a glossary of terms of techniques for writing poetry which is very helpful as well. Even though I would find using this book useful as a teacher, it is written in a manner that kids that can read at about fifth grade level on up can understand, and includes text boxes of vocab definitions for the poetry techniques. less

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