A Meal of the Stars

If it's April, it must be time for poetry!

Went to the Tattered Cover yesterday to work on a project I've got going 

and of course I had to stop and look at poetry books, 

and of course there were some new ones that I just HAD to buy! 

At the top of the stack was 

a meal of the stars: poems up and down

This book, by debut author Dana Jensen, is one that I know kids are absolutely going to love. 

Each two-page spread has one poem, with an illustration on the facing page.

But

here's the catch.

The poems have one word on each line.

Kids have to decide whether they need to read the page 

from top to bottom

or bottom to top.
(There's an invitation on the back that explains that,
but I didn't read that until I had read through the book
and figured it out for myself).

Check out this poem about spring!

again

hatch

to

songs

and

birds

and

eggs

and

spring

for

wait

can’t

boughs

tree

highest

the

in

nest

the

long

winter

all

I hope Mr. Jensen has lots more books coming, because this one is definitely going to be a hit!