SPI-KU
Author: Leslie Bulion
Illustrator: Robert Megnanck
Publisher: Peachtree Publishing
Ages 8-12
This web has a few bugs in it.
The pros:
- It’s a book about spiders!
- There are great illustrations.
- It has lots of different poems, and some are really good.
- It has interesting, detailed facts, collected in one place, about spiders.
The cons:
- It tries to do too much (not strictly a haiku book).
- It has too much information for kids — not quite an encyclopedia, not quite a reference book)
- Poem types are not identified.
Example I liked:
Southern House Spider
giving up
one pudgy velvet leg–
no problem
seven-legged escape
leaves predator holding
a tasty morsel
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My thanks to Peachtree Publishing for providing a Review Copy of this book. All opinions provided herein are my own.
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