Come to the Great World

Selected by: Wendy Cooling

Poems from all cultures around the world, this collection gives insight to daily life in places that many children will never see. The poems are written in free verse and use traditional words from many of the cultures with in the poems. Poetry can be an amazing way to express feeling and thought and this book gives great examples of this. Some of the poems do rhyme, and others change shape. This is a great book for a classroom during a poetry unit and can help children to understand that poetry does not have to fit a mold, but can instead be many different things.

Ages: 4-8