Michael Spooner

A simple book with a lot of poetry. A great beginners book on poetry.

This book may be small in size, but it is filled with plenty of poems. It has all types of poetry inside. The poems inside are very diverse as well. For example, there is a poem about bedtime prayers, but there is also a poem about snowflakes. This book would be great to share when teaching students about poetry. It would also be good to show students when they are beginning to write poetry themselves. They can look at all the different styles in this book and decide the style they enjoy most.

A moon in Your Lunch box is a very good book by Michael Spooner. Michael Spooner does a good job of having a collection of poems all relating to the four major seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. Spooner likes to have his poems choreographed where the poems are in different shapes like circles, diamonds, squares, etc. It is pleasing to the eye and to the mind. The poems are very encouraging for a mood that enlightens.

Selection: "Bubble Gum", This was a funny poem to me. You have to have an imagination to picture someone from U.S chewing bubble gum and blowing a big bubble like a hot air balloon and then picking her up and not stopping until it reaches France. What a free trip?