Mirror Mirror, A Book of Reverso Poems and a second collection called Follow Follow, by Marilyn Singer. It took me a minute to figure out these poems - they're written so you literally read them forward, and then backward (a line at a time, not word by word) and they read the same for the opposing characters. Really fascinating! We tried our hand at writing some reverso poems ourselves - it's hard!
Nursery Rhyme Comics, edited by Chris Duffy. Multiple artists contributed to this collection. This got the girls started on all kinds of reading and drawing. It was a fun presentation of nursery rhymes that don't seem to make a lot of sense in our time - they're definitely from another era. The cartoons brought them to life in a new way.
I've Lost My Hippopotamus, by Jack Prelutsky. We'd never read Jack Prelutsky's poems before. He's as silly and funny as Shel Silverstein!
We also read a lot of poems by Shel Silverstein that we hadn't seen before - the Runny Babbit book. We played with haiku. And you do realize, do you not, that knock-knock jokes are their own form of poetry. Even our 2-year-old loves knock-knock jokes.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Dwayne!
Dwayne who?
Dwayne the bathtub! I'm dwowning!
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