Bugs: Poems about Creeping Things

Bugs: Poems about Creeping Things

by David L. Harrison

illustrated by Rob Shepperson

Harrison does a great job of writing forty fun poems about bugs and collecting them into this fun compact children's book. There is also a large variety of poetry in this book as well with the styles of poems including some unique two person poems. The humor and playfulness shows in the poems like one of my favorite poems in this collection:

spider

In spider talk,
"I'm glad ta meeture!"

means

"I plans ta

catch and

eature

for a tasty

little treature!"

Don't go near
the nasty

creature!

Many of Harrison's poems carry these fun rhyming words that will entertain students throughout the book. The illustrations included are simple, black and white, and modern. I think the often times in collections of poems the illustrators do not include very much details because they are not necessarily needed. In most of these poems the great descriptions tell the readers so much already that the pictures are just used to add some extra fun. Overall I think boys and girls will enjoy reading all about bugs in this exciting collection of poetry.

Intended Age 4-8