Summary: This poetry book contains 15 poems, they are only 1-2 pages. There are 5 main chapters, Touch, hearing, vision, smell, and taste, and within each of those five are three different poems about different animals possessing an animal sense that is very significant. The pictures are drawn with one color, and it mainly looks like little lines and dots to create a big picture. For each poem, there are vivid, expressing, imaginative, and exaggerated details regarding the animal in the poem. There are a few dialogues, and many sounds throughout the book. This book could definitely be used in a kindergarten all the way to high school to teach about poetry, the English language, games and much more

Personal Reaction: I loved this poem book. The use of words, onomonopias, personification and many more figures of speech are so intense and imaginative. The artwork throughout this mini book, although only used one color per picture, was very creative. One picture created a whale with the white space and outline/colored in the rest with dots and lines. This book emphasized how much fun poetry can be and how exaggerated or how realistic as well.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1) This book could be used in so many activities. One for example would last a few days or a whole week. Take each main chapter, touch, hearing, vision, smell, and taste and do one each day. Or you can break this into weeks, one week do touch and read the three poems that week to do this activity. After reading the poem discuss the meanings and the words. Have children come up with their own poems about an animal using that sense. Or the teacher can assign an animal. They can keep that animal for all the senses and research what that animal uses their five senses for. The students can draw a picture as well. This would be an excellent activity for introducing figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperboles, etc.
2) Set up sense stations.
- For touch: Cut a hole big enough for a little hand to fit in a shoebox and place different textures, such as fake alligator, soft cat, and a few more from the poem book, in separate boxes of course. Have the students write down what they think the texture is.
- Hearing station: have students use headphones to listen to different, even exotic animal sounds. Have them record what they think the animal sound is.
- Vision station: set up a microscope viewing something small, binoculars viewing something far away and some old glasses looking at a picture book. Have students record what they see.
- Smell station: soak multiple cotton balls in different substances, vinegar, lemon juice, flowery smell, bacon juice, have students write down what they think the smell is.
- Lastly, for the taste station: have salt, sugar, some kind of sweet juice (make sure no one has allergies!!), and whatever other flavor you'd like, in separate jars, have students guess what they are before they try them, and then have them take a pinch to try it. Have them record this as well.
Discuss as a class your findings ( )

The chapters of this book were split into senses, and each sense had poems focusing on an animal and that sense that they had. It was an interesting poem book, and I would recommend it to children in grades k-5. ( )

I liked this book. It is a book of poems about different animals and their senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, and smell). I enjoyed some of the poems more than others. Some of the poemms felt forced, some were cute and catchy. ( )

A slim poetry anthology divided by the 5 senses with poems of animals and their acute abilities in that area. Artwork is delicate stamp work or wood carving. ( )

Engaging poetry and animals and how they use their senses. Great for a lesson on animals and/or senses. ( )