| Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 220159
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0061434485
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780061434488
ASIN: 0061434485
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents? Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your family, your pets, and your friends into poems. He offers tips, advice, and secrets about writing and provides some fun exercises to help you get started (or unstuck). You'll also get a behind-the-scenes look at the ingredients of some of his most popular poems. If you are a poet, want to be a poet, or if you have to write a poem for homework and you just need some help, this is the book for you!
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 My 7 year old LOVES this book! December 30, 2008
Santa gave this to my daughter .. she was not impressed at first, just a book, ho hum. Then she started reading it, and giggling, and reading more, and loves it so much it is now her Favorite Book Ever.
I plan to buy his new book this month.
My daughter is 7, I think that is the perfect age for fantasy and poetry!
Great for elementary school children October 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We left "Pizza, Pigs and Poetry" lying out in the open for our three granddaughters(ages 9, 11 & 13)to discover--which they did. Within a day or so, they were writing their own short poems--much of it very good. We made no effort to teach them nor did we encourage them. They received all the needed encouragement and help from the book. Within a short time, the poems got longer and better--more substantive, more perceptive. I suspect that the most important aspect of the book is getting the child over the fear of writing. It helps them feel comfortable about expressing themselves.
 Not what I expected October 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is in the format of a chapter book. I was expecting something with a few more written poems as examples. It does give different ways to begin writing poems though.
poetry, poetry, poetry! March 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
This new Prelutsky book is absolutely fabulous! Every year I engage my middle school students in creating an extensive "Poetry Package" as one of their major projects for the year, so this book has been a GREAT resource! THANK YOU, Jack Prelutsky! THANK YOU, Amazon.com!
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