Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Title: When Riddles Come Rumbling
Illustrator: Karen Dugan
Readability score: 8-11 years of age
Genre: Juvenile Poetry
Subgenre: Riddles
Theme: Collection of poems/riddles that allows the reader to guess the subject.
Primary and secondary characters: none
Awards
date of publication: 2001
Publishing Company: Wordsong
ISBN number: 1-56397-846-6
Brief Summary: A collection of 29 poems/riddles, in which the riddles reveal what the subject or topic of the poem, is. For example; “Shut me tight, and lock the lock- I won’t tell, and I won’t talk.” This short riddle would be about a diary. Each page includes a poem and the background offers picture details as clue of what the riddle is about.
How you would use: I would use this book in my classroom as a way to introduce riddles/poetry and how much fun they can be. I would read one poem at a time and allow the children to discuss and think about what it could be and why. This allows the students to be creative and really think. I would also have the students create their own type of riddle in which they could share and the class could try and guess what the riddle was about.
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