Because I Could Not Stop My Bike and Other Poems A collection of light-hearted parodies written in the style of such well-known poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, Christina Rosetti, Joyce Kilmer, and William Shakespeare.
Customer Review: Poems are the best thing to read on a day like this
I am positive you will love this book. I know I did.If you don’t know what book I’m talking about let me tell you. The name of the book is called “Because I Could Not Stop My Bike”. This book is filled with fun and silly poems like “A Messy Room”,”I Never Saw a Talking Hat”, “Mismatched Socks” and much,much more. The book is also filled with tons of rhyming words that will make your head spin. Poems are the best thing to read,create,or even send to a friend.
Customer Review: Educators Recommend
In this poetry picture book, Shapiro takes 26 famous English and American poems and transforms them into fresh and fun verse for children. Elizabeth Barrett Browning�s �How Do I Love Thee?� becomes �How Do I Love Ketchup? Let Me Count the Ways.� Joyce Kilmer�s �Trees,� becomes �Me�: �I think that I will never see, / another person just like me.�
Faulkner�s pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations are in perfect tune with the text.
The cartoon-like double-page spreads and spot art are lively and expressive.
What is so wonderful about this book is that it works on many different levels. It is a winning choice for reading aloud to younger students. Too, teachers can use this in middle and high school classes. We took the book into an eighth-grade Language Arts classroom where we discussed various poetic forms. We read to the students the original poem (such as Kilmer�s, �Trees,�) and then Shapiro�s version. The students loved it. They then created their own versions of such classics as Robert Burns� �A Red, Red Rose.�
This book receives our highest recommendation: Suitable for district-wide library acquisitions.
Reviewed by the Education Oasis Staff
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