Illustrated by Marcellus Hall http://www.marcellushall.com/
Published HNA inc., New York, 2009
Brush Ink watercolor on paper
People always on the go
Racing, running, rushing people
People I will never know
Rhyme
Annotation Individual simple poems about living in large cities around the world.
Personal Reaction
Sometimes it is just fun to memorize and read poetry out loud. These poems are not only geographically centered they are fun and have the rhyming nature that motivates newer poetry readers, or should we call them reluctant poetry readers. I would say older students, such as middle schoolers (ugh), are harder to bring into the poetry world, and maybe the world of geography as well. This book could be used to capture some of them, especially in urban schools. The books cover page and inside binding has a map showing the cities the poems depict. The illustrations for each poem are a little immature most accompanied by a dog in a back pack, but aside from that they show an interesting perspective, sometimes coming from the bottom, sometimes from the top of a skyscraper, fitting for Marcellus, a New Yorker artist.
Curricular connections
5th grade poetry unit
Geography
**Poetry
City Life
**Rhyme
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