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june 15
you can taste the sunshine

I love how these poems flow. Nature poems are some of my favorites, and this really encapsulated all of the seasons. I like that they are titled with different dates.

This collection of poems covers the different seasons. The poems flow from one season to the next. Through the words and illustrations, you are able to see the shifting of the seasons. It uses lots of descriptive language.

This book is illustrated to match the tone of the poems

this book full of poetry also fills you with a calm sweetness. a great introduction to poems and the spring

I thought this book was so cute and I plan to use it in my classroom. The poem I chose is during the winter talking about snow.

Such cute book with different poems that are around different days of the year.

These poems are a collection showing adventure and fun. It goes through all of the seasons so it is good for teaching students about seasons and what each season looks like

“March 20: From a snow-covered tree, a bird singing“ This quote describes a typical cold March day!

Something I like about this book is the fact that it doesn't rhyme, I'd include this in my classroom to make children aware of this.

“When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons“ by Julie Fogliano, 2016. Poetry book. This book is a definite pick. This poetry book includes a poem for almost every day of the year describing what the world looks like outside. By the end of the book, you have read about all four seasons. This book creates great sensory/visual images so kids can picture exactly what the book is describing.

“you can taste the sunshine and the buzzing and the breeze while eating berries off the bush“

This book would be great for 2nd and 3rd graders. It's a great book to realize the dates and seasons that correlate together. It shows great pictures to show each season to explain the words. This book is longer so its more suitable for older elementary kids.

This is a poetry book. This book is very inviting for children. It helps children have imagination in what they are reading. Each page has a different date with the season which helps students see the imagery.

“ if you want to be sure that you are nothing more than small stand at the edge of the ocean looking out”

My favorite part was the end of the book when it wrapped back to March 20! I thought it was clever and a nice ending

I really enjoyed this book! I love how the poems progressed through the year with all different season and weather! It was unique though in that it was so specific about the time of year not just fall, spring, summer, winter; which I really liked

“august 3
if you want to be sure
that you are nothing more than small
stand at the edge of the ocean
looking out“

I would use this book in my classroom because it could strike up conversation of interest in different seasons and then I could do activities centered on my lesson plans.

When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons written by Julie Fogliano. This book is full of poems about the different seasons and varying days throughout these seasons. This poem rhymes and is set up in a way similar to a journal. It creates an image in your head that hits all your sense and brings up your memories about those days and seasons.

“June 15
You can taste the sunshine
And the buzzing
And the breeze
While eating berries off the bush
On berry hands
And berry knees.”

My favorite part of these poems was the illustrations and colors portrayed.

When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano was such a cute book of poems. Each poem‘s title is dated different months and days of the year. Each one is about the seasons and different things happening during the season. For example April 12 the poem is rain makes frogs hop in a hurry. I love these poems and they are very educational for young children to learn about the different seasons and weather.

“a star is someone else‘s sun more flicker glow than blinding a speck of light too far for bright and too small to make a morning”

I love this book! the Illustrations are wonderful. some of my favorite poems are December 29th, October 31st, and September 10th. Could definitely do the different power on the days they are.

This is a beautiful poem book. Published in 2016 it is all about the different seasons. The illustrations are beautifully done and the poems are sweet and short. This is super sweet and uplifting. Love this!

I really like this book for going through the seasons. I think this story could go through the whole year. Focusing on the individual seasons.

This 2016 collection of poems goes through the different seasons. These poems also don‘t rhyme but have that rocking rhythm that could lull you to sleep. I think this is a great classroom pick.

“Everywhere is chirping and now there is purple”

This was such a cute book, I love poetry so much and this was so intriguing I fell like so many people would enjoy this.

When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano is a collection of poems. It was written in 2016. This book was super interesting, even though it was a collection of poems they all kind of flowed together. I feel like it took us through the life of the speaker and tells us about the seasons as well as what she does. It was a prefect mix of both. The flow of the words was beautiful and it was so easy to read. I wish I had time t read it all.

“If you ever stopped to taste a blueberry you would know that it‘s not really about the blue, at all”

I really enjoyed the simplicity in these illustrations as well as the light backgrounds with dark detail of images. This gave the book a very realistic and light feeling.

I love this book because it goes through each season and explains the experience that goes along with it. I think by sectioning off the poem in this way it adds an element of time which adds to the book.

December 29 and I woke to a morning that was quiet and white the first snow

One of my favorite things about this is that they‘re kind of written diary style. I think kids might see that poetry doesn‘t have to always feel so “strict” or bound to certain rules.

This would be great to incorporate into the classrooms at different points of the year. It has poems for every time of the year that I think would be great for kids to read along with or independently.

Poetry. This book is beautiful and captures every feeling you can possibly have about the seasons. It‘s perfect for a classroom or just for anyone to read when they are feeling in love with the world and all the things that come with it.