  | Falling up : poems and drawings Author: Silverstein, Shel | |
| Price: $26.58 | ||
Summary:
A collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.
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| Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 3-5 Reading Level: 3.50 Points: 5.0 Quiz: 03777 | ||
Common Core Standards
CC Maps Recommended Works Gde K-5
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 2 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 3.RF Fluency
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Fluency
Grade 5 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 5.RF Fluency
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (05/01/96)
School Library Journal (07/96)
Booklist (+) (07/01/96)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (06/96)
The Hornbook (09/96)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 07/01/1996 Gr 3 Up--Fifteen years after A Light in the Attic (1981) and 22 years after Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974, both HarperCollins), Silverstein, whose poetry has achieved cultlike popularity, offers readers another collection. While bodily functions seem to be the source of humor in more poems than in the earlier titles, and while there are fewer wonderful images here, the child appeal is as strong as ever. Once again, Silverstein's pen-and-ink drawings are the perfect accompaniment to the poems, always extending and often explaining the words. The book abounds in energetic wordplay ( I saw an ol' gnome/Take a gknock at a gnat/Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu ) and childlike silliness ( I only ate one drumstick/At the picnic dance this summer...But everybody's mad at me,/Especially the drummer ). Silverstein writes wonderful nonsense verse, but he has used rhyme and rhythm to greater effect in the past. There is much to love in Falling Up, but it has its ups and downs.--Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT - Copyright 1996 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
Booklist - 07/01/1996 *Starred Review* %% This is a multi-book review. SEE the title The Heart for next imprint and review text. %%Gr. 36, younger for reading aloud. It's been a long wait for fans of A Light in the Attic (1981), but it was worth it. This new collection includes more than 150 poems, ranging from the story of Pinocchio (that little wooden bloke-io ) in 11 verses to the poignant, two-line Stone Airplane : I made an airplane out of stone . . . / I always did like staying home. As always, Silverstein has a direct line to what kids like, and he gives them poems celebrating the gross, the scary, the absurd, and the comical. The drawings are much more than decoration. They often extend a poem's meaning and, in many cases, add some great comedy. Imagining, for example, which begins, You're only just imagining / A mouse is in your hair, is accompanied by a picture showing a little girl with an elephant on her head. Wordplay abounds, as in the poem The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu (That gnat ain't done gnothing to you ), and the meter only falters a few times. Silverstein also cleverly plays with the design of the book, occasionally continuing a drawing onto the next spread. His final picture actually disappears into the central ditch of the book, with a warning not to pursue, cause if you try finding / some more in the binding, you may just . . . disappear. And in addition to all the laughs, he slips in some thought-provoking verses about animal rights, morality, and the strange ways humans behave. Expect high demand, and stock up. (Reviewed July 1996) - Copyright 1996 Booklist.
