Cornflakes Book

This book is themed in that it has poems about many things you would see around a city. For example, a collection of short poems on various everyday things such as garbage, a junkyard, and a factory. These are unique because he picks out little details that you may have never noticed about an object before.
It has many different styles of poems, some long and some short, that could help a child see that a poem does not have to follow one simple pattern, but can be made up in a variety of ways.
This would be a good book for 2nd to 4th grade students to read because of how much the illustrations help bring the poems to life.
This book used elements of design to help illustrate the poems. The font is different for each poem. The different way that the words are arranged on the page helps to tell the story.The pages contain a lot of white space that has the pictures done in watercolor paints and black pen depicting the themes of the poems.
My favorite poem Garbage Bags discussed trash day. All of the trash bags wait on the corner in their black tuxedos with bow ties, awaiting the opera. It is fun to think of trash in this way and I think children would really like the way the author, James Stevenson, thinks about these things.