picture book 25

Title: Rhymes Round the World
Author: Kay Chorao
Illustrator: Kay Chorao
Readability Score: ?
Genre: Diversity
Sub Genre: Juvenile Poetry
Theme: Poems are the same in any language
Main Characters: n/a
Secondary Characters: n/a
ISBN: 978-0-525-47875-1
Publisher: Duttons Childrens book
Publication Date: 2009
Summary: This book tells poems from around the world, under each poem it tells where it is from. For example- "I am like a bear. I hold up my hands, waiting for the sun to rise." This poem was from a Pawnee, Native American. The illustrations shows a girl dressed in Native American attire with a bear shadow for the back ground. These poems tell of clouds in the sky that look like animals, to Brother John, Are you sleeping (came from France). to Winds that blew peach blossoms from someone in Korea. These poems show not only similarities in our poems but shows the differences and cultures of the writer. Each poem filled with pictures of that culture- like the Pinata poem- shows a boy trying to hit a pinata. The words and pictures flow great together.
How would use: This would be another great book to show how we are more alike than different. We can do so much with this book- we can talk about different cultures, things the people in the pictures are celebrating/doing. Then I would have the students write their own poem about their birthday- this would show how in our classrooms we are all different and do different thing, but differences are fun and fun to talk about.