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Poem in my Pocket


By Chris Tougas Illustrated By Josée Bisaillon



Not only a fanciful rhyming adventure tale, Chris Tougas’s picture book is also a delightful allegory for the creative writing process.


"In this charming picture book allegory of the creative writing process, happenstance and weather events symbolize the emotional ebb and flow of writing a poem. I had a poem in my pocket, but my pocket got a rip. Rhymes tumbled down my leg and trickled from my hip. Thus begins the journey of a young poet's words out into the world, where they join randomly with other words to form funny riffs and puns all over a busy city street. The child scrambles to capture the loose words and arrange them back into poem form, only to lose them again as a storm swoops in on a rushing wind. Eventually, the words plant themselves in the muddy ground, where they grow into something that might be even better than the original poem: a Poet-Tree."


-Goodreads



Listen

Learn

Share

- Log in to the Tumblebook database

- Click TumbleSearch

-Search by Subject: “poetry"

-Listen, watch, and read along with the narrators of different poems.


 

User Name: fauquier

Password: reads


-Visit Britannica School -Click the Elementary Tree arrow

-Search “poetry"

-Learn more about the different rhythms, sounds, and forms of poetry.


 

https://school.eb.com

School Access ID: fcps1

Passcode: welcome

-Ask an adult to share a favorite poem.

-On April 28th, Poem in Your Pocket Day, share pocket poems with your family and friends.

-Create your own pocket poems to share.

-Print your own pocket Poems foldable book.

-Watch the poetry mini book folding video. https://vimeo.com/399349427


Optional Activities:

-Listen to poet Linda Kulp Trout read and perform her poem “Hands Say, ‘Great Job!’" https://vimeo.com/534206085

-Practice reading her poem while making the hand movements. https://bit.ly/3ixQXJ0


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