Nest, Nook & Cranny - Hardcover

Blackaby, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580893503 ISBN 13: 9781580893503

Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2010

Synopsis

From tongue-in-cheek sonnets to lyrical free verse, this collection of poems explores the many kinds of home animals make for themselves. Readers will meet better-known animal dwellings like the spiderweb and the bird's nest as well as the more unusual: a fawn's thicket bed, a hare's bowl-shaped ground nest, and a sea anemone's ever-changing tide pool home. Readers experience different habitats—desert, grasslands, shoreline, wetland, and woodland—and the animals that build their dwellings there. 

Jamie Hogan's expressive line art complements this clever anthology. Back matter provides more information on the highlighted habitats, poetic forms, and the writing process.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Blackaby is the author of REMBRANDT'S HAT (Houghton Mifflin), named a Top Ten Picture Book of the Year by the Washington Post, as well as many leveled readers for the educational market. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4–8—Blackaby's descriptive untitled poems about mammals, insects, and birds are arranged in sections by habitat—desert, grassland, shoreline, wetland, woodland—in sketchbook format, along with accomplished realistic charcoal pencil drawings on textured paper. Each short section of three to six poems begins with a two-page drawing of the habitat. The clever, informative rhymes include carefully researched details about animal behavior—creatures that carry their homes; what otters and herons eat; the habits of ducks; hiding places for bugs. There is a brief descriptive paragraph on each of the five habitats. A poem-by-poem discussion of how appropriate poetic form and devices were chosen for each piece provides valuable coaching and inspiration for students to try their own hand at creating verse. This is a special book that teachers will find useful and nature lovers will treasure.—Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1580893503
• ISBN 13: 9781580893503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 60
• Illustrator: Hogan Jamie