Apes to Zebras
This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone.
This anthology would make a great whole school poetry project.
If you would like to be invoiced for this collection (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone.
This anthology would make a great whole school poetry project.
If you would like to be invoiced for this collection (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone.
This anthology would make a great whole school poetry project.
If you would like to be invoiced for this collection (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
We love this anthology because it is:
an alphabetical walk through the animal kingdom
a fabulous introduction to shape poetry
filled with a great variety of language & lengths of poem making it perfect for a whole school poetry project
filled with links to animals, habitats and adaptation
Learning opportunities:
Science ~ Animals & their Habitats
Reading ~ use of metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, and rhyme
Emperor Penguin: what do you find out about penguins in this poem? Create a fact file from the poem and additional research. Look at the rhyming patter in the poem. Choose another animal from a similar habitat and write a rhyming shape poem about their characteristics.
Giraffe: the poem explains why a giraffe needs to be so tall. Think about how it is adapted to suit its environment. Can you create another poem about a different animal that has adapted to its habitat in the shape of its body?
Grasshopper: How does the poem reflect the movement of a grasshopper? Choose another mini beast that moves in a different way and create a shape poem about its movement.
Mosquito: This poem repeats the same 5 words. Is it funny or scary? Can you choose another animal and create a poem that repeats the same line in the pattern of its movement.
Bees: Why is this poem not in the shape of a bee? What has happened to the letter ‘b’? Why are bees essential to our world? Can you create a shape poem about an animal that is endangered? Will the shape by the animal or its habitat?
Spider: how does a spider spin a web? Create a piece of artwork based on a spider’s web.
Octopus Challenge: can you create an octopus poem from the challenge in the back of the book? try to make it funny thinking about each of the eight legs.
