School Supplies: A Book of Poems

by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Book Overview

Carl Sandburg, Myra Cohn Livingston, Jane Yolen, and others wax poetic about the essentials of the classroom, from paper clips to notebooks to rulers. Full color. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689804970
• ISBN13: 9780689804977
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 11.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great words, great pictures

So glad I discovered this book for my 3rd graders... great for the first week of school. We found all the describing words and one student noticed the "Picasso" illustrations! Lots of similes -- which of course we found as well. Really a DARLING book...

Nice poetry, great illustrations

I disagree strongly with the Booklist reviewer's opinion of Renee Flower's illustrations. The illustrations are indeed bright, but they are fun, unique and a refreshing departure from the usual fine art style, museum-quality paintings (read: dull) that grace the pages of one too many children's books. Rather than detracting from the poems, they enhance the quality of the book by capturing the mood and spirit of each poem. All too often, children's books are serious, stodgy things. Flower's illustrations are extraordinarily fun, and so is this book.