Weather: Poems for All Seasons

By Lee Bennett Hopkins

Book Overview

This fun collection of poems about the weather is a good way to lure beginning readers--and also younger listeners--to the joy of sounds that make sense. (Booklist)

Booklist praised the range and approachability of the poems collected in this 64-page Level 3 I Can Read collection, from the catchy nonsense of X. J. Kennedy's 'Snowflake Souffle' to the simple, surprising imagery of Valerie Worth's 'Sun' to Hopkins's own onomatopoeic 'Thunder, ' [with] short lines, satisfying rhyme, and physicalness of the words.

Weather is a Level Three I Can Read book. Level 3 includes many fun subjects kids love to read about on their own. Themes include friendship, adventure, historical fiction, and science. Level 3 books are written for early independent readers. They include some challenging words and more complex themes and stories.

Lee Bennett Hopkins was an acclaimed poet and anthologist. His work was recognized with the Regina Medal from the Catholic Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award, the Christopher Award, and many more. As Lee Bennett Hopkins said: "Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it. It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064441911
• ISBN13: 9780064441919
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

wonderful poem book

My daughter is usually bored with poems. But not this book! I took it out from the library and she likes it. The pictures are beautiful, the poems are short and easy to understand, and it is a great science book. My daughter is 4 and I am going to order this; I just wish all the paperbacks were not out of stock. Good Luck.