City I Love Book

Written by Hopkins, this collection of poems centers around what happens in the city: what is seen, heard, and felt. Each poem takes a typical experience for someone who is in an urban area and describes it with such detail and description, that even construction zones are something to be appreciated. Some of the poems are creatively placed on the page, allowing for students to see symmetry and repetition within a poem. The poems are accompanied by beautiful pictures.

This book allows for the city to be vied in a new light. Given that "urban areas" are sometimes viewed as more dirty and unattractive to more natural settings, I feel this book sheds some of the beauty that cities hold. It would be wonderful for students growing up in urban areas to read this to appreciated their surroundings. I also think the simplicity of the poems allow students to see poetry as a feasible piece of writing. I would use this in second grade and up.