Reviews for All the Way Home

The average rating for All the Way Home based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-11 00:00:00 Thomas Shields All The Small Poems is a collection of short poems. Each poem focuses on an animal or inanimate object of some type. They are short, simple and descriptive. In the many poems that I read from this collection, the majority did not rhyme. The poems don't exactly have a flow to them either. There isn't really a rhythm to the sentences and verses. Each poem is extremely descriptive. It gives a lot of imagery by using an array of adjectives. The poems do not give insight. Unless you are discovering the subject of the poem for the first time, it is fairly simple topics that do not expand awareness. I'd say these poems do, however, give a positive stretch. Each poem is extremely descriptive so it really does a great job in illuminating observations and featuring creative word play. If the lesson you were doing were to involve animals, this could be appropriate for that type of lesson. There are a lot of poems about animals and these poems could be good ways to describe the animals creatively. I thought the book of poems was okay. I didn't really enjoy it a lot because I prefer poems to rhyme and to have a type of rhythm while reading. However, I feel this could be used in a lesson of some sort. If you were discussing using adjectives to describe an object, this collection of poems would be a great example. The poems however did not affect me in any way and I didn't really take much from reading them.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-09 00:00:00 Myzelle Tisdale All The Small Poems by Valerie Worth is a book filled with short poems on all different topics. Some poems are about animals, household objects, flowers, and foods. The poems are very insightful and have pictures to go along with them. I really enjoyed reading these poems because they were short and very descriptive. Wile reading each poem, I could picture exactly what was being said through sight words and the object being described was described so well. I also liked how each poem had a picture to go along with it. This helps the reader see how differently someone can view and picture something in their mind. None of the poems rhymed but the sounds matched the words to the tone of the poem. They made me think as if I were the object. So, these poems provided me with new observations and awareness of how an animal may feel. I think that this book of poems would be great in the classroom and students could really benefit from it. Their topics are on things that children are familiar with and written in an easy understandable way. I really liked this book of poetry and would love to use it in my classroom one day.