by Jack Prelutsky
illustrations by James Stevenson
A Pizza the Size of the Sun is a magnificent collection of poetry written for all ages of children. The best part about this wonderful collection by Jack Prelutsky is the amount of variety that are found in the book. The poems take on all different formats, lengths, and layouts including one poem called "I Was Walking in a Circle" which has the poem written in a unique way around a circle. He also includes a multitude of different topics and ideas for the poems from opossums, to sailing, to moopies. Readers will defiantly enjoy reading this book because the wide variety of poems always keeps the reader's interests. This book would be a great tool to have in the classroom too when students get stuck on something to write they can easily be intrigued by some of the poems included to begin writing about a similar topic, or similar type of poem. This book got the name from the fun poem at the beginning of the book about making a giant pizza. My favorite poem of this whole book comes as the last one included in the collection which is titled "If." The whole poem poses unique questions about random thoughts or plays on words. The illustrations included in this book are simple, yet add more detail to each poem. Without the illustrations I think some of the young readers would get lost in this book because they may be intimidated by the length of the book. Overall this is a wonderful collection of poetry and a must have in the classroom.
Intended Age 5+
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