Rate this book

Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (2008)

by Nikki Giovanni(Favorite Author)

4.29 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1402210485 (ISBN13: 9781402210488)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Sourcebooks

review 1: • Includes an Audio CD, which has many of the poems or songs that are included in the anthology. • Features hip hop favorites - Tupac, A Tribe Called Quest, and Queen Latifah. • Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes have poems featured. • Concludes with excerpts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.• Utterly beautiful multicultural illustrations.• Common theme of perseverance, love, dreams, books, and family.• A must have for every library. This poetry anthology is also begging to be used in the classroom during a unit on poetry.
review 2: I think putting poetry to a beat is a good idea. This gets children interested in what is about to be especially something that can normally, sometimes boring. I love that they have taken some ver... moreses from old school songs and other poems and put them to beat and had some famous authors read the poems on the CD. "Books" by Eloise GreenfieldI've got books on the bed books on the chairbooks on the couchAnd every old whereBut I want more books just can't get enoughwant more books aboutAll kinds of stuff, likeJackie's troubles, Raymond's joysRabbits, kangaroos, Girls and BoysMountains, valleys, Winter, springCampfire, vampiresEvery old thingI want to Lie down on my bunk bedLean back inmy b chairCurl up on the couchAnd every oldwhereAndreadmorebooks! less

Download links for: Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat

Advertising