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“imagine what you could do.“

I think this book would be good for children in grade 3-5. This book speaks to every reader and dreamer searching for their place in life.

This book is about Herrera's life. As a young boy spending time outside and then as an adolescent learning to craft poetry, before ultimately receiving the honor of U.S. Poet Laureate as an adult.

“I met a young spider named Deb, who's become quite a singing celeb. When I asked how she'd grown to be so well known, she replied, “I'm all over the web!“

It is in a lyrical picture book form. It has repetition on every page because, at the end of the page, it ends with “imagine.“ It has a slow rhythm with long lines and multisyllabic words. This would be a great poem to use when introducing poets and starting an activity where the students write what they want to be when they get older and make a whole lesson out of it.

It is about a boy who imagines what he will be like when he grows up. It is about Juan's life as a boy spending time outside and then as he is learning to write poetry.

Blurb:
It is in a lyrical picture book form. It has repetition on every page because, at the end of the page, it ends with “imagine.“ It has a slow rhythm with long lines and multisyllabic words. This would be a great poem to use when introducing poets and starting an activity where the students write what they want to be when they get older and make a whole lesson out of it.

Review:
It is about a boy who imagines what he will be like when he grows up. It is about Juan's life as a boy spending time outside and then as he is learning to write poetry.

I really enjoyed this poem. At first I was somewhat confused because of the repetition of the word imagine. I wasn't sure what it meant imagine. But then I realized if the author could do what he did, Imagine what the reader could do. Once I figured that out the book made a lot more sense. The pictures were beautifully illustrated and the repetition of the word imagine was very powerful.

“If I opened my classroom's wooden door not knowing how to read or speak in English, imagine.“

The moment when he wrote about imagining what his life would be like if he could go to school and understand English instead of being confused and the only non-speaking English learner.

In this story Imagine is about a boy named Juan who speaks Spanish at home but his school speaks English. He starts to write his own poetry about his views on the world around him. At the end of each poem he ends with the word imagine. This story is cute and appropriate for elementary schoolers.

#ANewChapter Day 21: #IHaveADream reminded me of this nonfiction picturebook written in verse, where the beauty and power of imagination is unleashed in quiet waves and soft colours. Based on the childhood of US Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, it speaks of what life was like as a young migrant boy unfamiliar with the English language, confronting school with nothing but his red backpack filled with dreams. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j5p

🎶Welllll you know what‘s stuck in my head now. #poetry

An illustrated poem, and I actually found the poem to be quite approachable for children. It is lyrical, but it has enough concrete detail to be comprehensible, and the illustrations help convey the meaning.

So every week or two, I go into the public library and check out anywhere from 4-12 children‘s picture books or chapter books at a time. It‘s usually the same three people that help me checkout at the circ desk. Since I never have a child with me when I check out all these kid books and they don‘t know I‘m an elementary school librarian, I have to wonder what weird backstory have they come up with to explain my quirky checkout history?