# 13 Giant Children
Author: Brod Bagert
Illustrator: Tedd Arnold
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002
28 pages
“I
hold my baby brother, all powered, sweet, and pink. But when he makes a funny face,
his diaper starts to stink.”
Poetry
I chose this book based off of a
recommendation a friend of mine gave me. I was not sure about this book, but
then I read it and was really entertained by the poems in it. The book is
filled with several different poem about giant children and the different
situations they are in. The first poem is told from a class hamster
perspective. The hamster describes the giant children. The poems that follow
are all told by the children or about the children. The poems are creative and
appeal to child because they are written about the things children do. One of
the poems gives a warning to not ever read it to an adult because it is about
loving a booger anywhere except for in his nose.
The
illustrations in this book are prepared with color pencils and water color
washes. The colors are soft reds, yellows, oranges, greens, and blues. The thin
lines are used to give the characters definition and create the look of
movement in the pictures. Some of the pages contain a lot of negative space
while other pictures take up the entire page with the text written into the
pictures. The children are illustrated perfectly to fit the title of the book.
All of the illustrations give the illusion that the children are giant.
This book
is appropriate for third through sixth grade. The children in the poems talk
about things the ages of these grades would do. The imagination of the children
told in the poems make this book an entertaining one for students of older
ages. This book could be used in the classroom for a language arts lesson or
writing lesson by having the students create their own poem using their
imagination and thinking outside of the box. This book has no awards or honors,
but is a book filled with laughs for not only students, but adults too.
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