Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit

Book Description
Why should grown-ups have all the fun? Here to follow last fall's The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry (159,000 copies in print through three printings) is The Kids' Magnetic Poetry® Book and Creativity Kit. And fun it is. Created to be more of an activity-filled kit and less an anthology, Kids' Magnetic Poetry is a large-format, plastic spiral-bound, activity-filled book that comes with 200 big-type, oversize word tiles plus a sheet of colorful magnetic shapes. The front cover is magnet-friendly and folds out to be a composition board big enough for two kids to work on at the same time. At the heart of the book are poetry-related activities and exercises for kids ages 8-12. They learn how rhythm and rhyme work. How tools like simile, metaphor, and personification enrich a poem's meaning, while alliteration, assonance, homonyms, and onomatopoeia give it a unique sound. And they learn by doing--writing a cartoon poem, a scramble poem, a color poem, a self-portrait poem, even a T-shirt poem. Scattered throughout, for the pleasure of reading and as illustration by example, are poems both traditional and magnetic from famous poets and kids across America. Dave Kapell is the inventor and president of Magnetic Poetry®. Magnetic Poetry is hot, hot, hot--over 2 million copies sold make it the bookstores' bestselling non-book product of all time.

Foreword by Judith Viorst. 170,000 copies in print


Card catalog description
This activity-filled kit explains the concepts of rhythm and rhyme, figures of speech, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and how they are used to create poetry.


From the Back Cover
"Writing a poem can make you feel as if a cork has been pulled from the top of your head."--Judith Viorst Discover the mind-popping pleasure of poetry. Draw pictures with words, feel the music of a sentence, and learn to look at life with a mental squint. There's the poet's toolbox, with a little alliteration and the oomph of onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and to rhyme or not to rhyme. Game poems for groups--scramble poems, go 'round poems, automatic poems, and jigsaw poems--and the exotic classics--jaiku, tankas, lunes, and lanterns. Plus getting the creative juices flowing, whether writing about your deepest feelings, secrets, and fears, or composing an ode to a favorite T-shirt. With word tiles and composition board included, it's the book of instant fun.


About the Author
Dave Kapell, a former English major and sometime songwriter, is the inventor and president of Magnetic Poetry(c). He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and young son. Sally Steenland is a freelance journalist and columnist who lives in Washington, D.C. Their previous book was "The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry."


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"Writing a poem can make you feel as if a cork has been pulled from the top of your head."  — Juidth Viorst


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