Reviews for Never take a pig to lunch

The average rating for Never take a pig to lunch based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-11 00:00:00 Monte Broughton This is by far the silliest collection of poetry I've ever stumbled upon, but that doesn't mean it's bad! Opposite, actually. It includes work from one of the most well-known children's poets ever, Jack Prelutsky, plus several winners of the NCTE's Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, and takes the topic of eating to new, funny levels. Short poems and long poems intermingle to tell different stories all about the dining table that are sweet and sad and disgusting, and 100% relatable to any child that reads it'because everyone eats, and who wouldn't want to make the experience even more fun? Several studies have shown that children prefer poetry that is humorous, exciting, and rhythmic, and this book delivers in all aspects. Bright illustrations correlating to each poem pop on every page, drawing the eye in to various elements that then bring you back to the poem, so that you may discover something you might have missed. I've gone through this book several times and each time have found something new, because the illustrations, all done by anthology editor Nadine Bernard Westcott, are incredibly detailed, and fun to look at. Children are sure to spend hours with this book, playing with the great language within, and falling into the colorful world that Westcott creates in her art.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-21 00:00:00 Estelle Kastleman This is a really cute book of poems that I would say is appropriate for third graders. The poems focus on the different feelings you can get from eating various foods, told from a silly perspective! One way that I could use this book in my classroom would be to have the students read this book and then write a poem about their favorite food and how it makes them feel. Another way that I could use this book in my instruction is by having the students pick one poem from the book and have them rewrite it in a different poetic form after a lesson on the different forms of poems. I thought that this was a WOW book because it was a really fun book of poems to read! I honestly never really enjoyed reading poetry, and I think a lot of kids don't, but the poems in this book are funny and take a kid's perspective of what eating different foods is like. This book will help students realize they can relate to poetry and it's not just old, stuffy stories. Not an E-text.