Hungry for the Arts: Poems to Chomp On

by Kari-Lynn Winters, Lori Sherritt-Fleming, Peggy Collins (Illustrator)

Overview

Hungry for groovy-groovin'?
Gobble shapes that get you movin'
Choose buffets or a-la-carte
Music, dance, drama, art!

Another fun collection of poems from the team behind Hungry for Math and Hungry for Science.

Explore your creativity with Hungry for the Arts, a collection of poems highlighting concepts like pathways, dynamics, roles, and textures! Celebrate arts with dancing dinosaurs, jazzy cats, a dramatic ride and a homemade robot that whizzes through chores.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554554669
Publisher:	Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kari-Lynn Winters is an author, poet and performer. She is an assistant professor at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario. She is the author of several books for children including Buzz About Bees.

Lori Sherritt-Fleming is an author, educator and performer. Her first picture book was aRHYTHMetic. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

Peggy Collins is the illustrator of In the Garden and Tooter's Stinky Wish. She lives near Kingston, Ontario.

Editorial Reviews

2021-06-29
Are you hungry for the arts? “Choose buffets or a-la-carte. / Music, / dance, / drama, / art!”

Although many of the poems herein really encompass several arts, a color-coded circle at the beginning of each poem identifies the featured topic. Poems with a green dot for drama include the (very busy) jungle-, pirate-, and alien-themed “When I’m…,” with plenty of R’s to roll and roles to play; “A Dramatic Ride” reenactment of a “ride [on] the Loop-de-Loop, the curviest coaster”; and “Move Into Drama,” which offers movement exercises to “make… / roles seem real.” One dance poem creates silly rhymes to bring sports moves to the dance floor by suggesting “basketball with a teacup pup,” “hockey with a mallard duck,” and “soccer with a lone star tick,” and readers will giggle their way through “The Whammy-Roo,” a new dance demonstrated by two White kids, one nondisabled and one who uses a wheelchair. Creative poetry formats include an acrostic, one all about the rhythm written with musical quarter and eighth notes, another defining musical terms using creative font manipulation, and an ode to shapes in art. “Circle, where would I be… / If you left me? Where would I even start…?” Bright cartoon illustrations starring animals, robots, dinosaurs, and a multiracial ensemble of children fairly scream fun and encourage active, creative participation in the arts. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A creative invitation to sample (and cook up) a smorgasbord of art, drama, dance, and music. (glossary) (Picture book/poetry. 5-10)

Kirkus Reviews