Sea Stars: Saltwater Poems

by Avis Harley

Graceful use of traditional poetic forms like haiku and tanka provides inspiration for young readers to create their own writing. Is a crab just an underwater toe-pincher? What advice do sea otters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590784294
• ISBN13: 9781590784297
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Length: 35 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Beautiful pictures!

This book is a collection of poems about sea animals. It includes a wide range of animals, from the well-known sea otters and beluga whales, to the less familiar sea cucumber and pipefish. Each poem has a corresponding picture, and there is a "looking deeper" section at the end of the book which gives more details about each animal. The beautiful pictures make this book a must-see. The poems are short enough that they can be enjoyed by those with short attention spans, but they are detailed enough to interest more advanced readers. This book would be best suited for middle school readers because some of the vocabulary is difficult, although younger readers can still enjoy the pictures and the rhyming. The short poems and eye-catching pictures also make it an easy book to pick up and put down over and over. This would be a nice coffee-table type book for a classroom.