Title: Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems
Illustrator: Jose Aruge & Ariane Dewey
Readability score: 3.5
Genre: Poetry
Sub genre: N/A
Theme: learning about the lives of penguins while seeing it in poetry form
Primary and secondary characters: penguins
Awards: N/A
Publishing company: Gulliver Books
Date of publication: 1998
ISBN number: 0-15-201006-8
Summary: This poetry book contains different outlooks on the life of a penguin while laying it out in poetry form. The different types of poems contain a penguin's song when a baby hatches, regurgitating a meal for dinner, a baby looking for its mother, and a penguin's first swim.
This book is an excellent way to display a visual on penguin's lives. I would use this in the classroom in a unit on poetry and I would ask the students to do a writing activity. They could choose their favorite animal to write a poem on or they could write another poem on the penguins. This poetry book can create a lot of possibilities for the classroom as far as learning about different animals, writing about their ideas, sharing them with the class and how poetry can create the creativity that goes along with it.
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