Baseball, Snakes and Summer Squash: Poems of Childhood Book

Although these poems tend to be longer, I think kids will really like these as well. They are poems about growing up. Many of the topics are things most kids experience, so I think they will find it easy to connect to the topics and find themselves in the poems. What kid can't relate to bullies, lying, thunderstorms, or growing pains?

I have a feeling that seeing someone else write about familiar items will inspire students as they begin to write their own poems. This book will reinforce the idea that a poem can be about anything. I definitely will be using this book to model poetry in my classroom!