Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky

By: Georgia Heard
Illustrator: Jennifer Owings Dewey
Awards: None
Grade Level: 2nd-5th

Summary:
     Poems about animals such as hummingbirds, elephants, dragonflies and frogs that explore different breads and their lifestyles through expressive poems and images.

Evaluation:
     This is a great resource to have in a classroom library, especially when integrating literacy into science. I love that the poems are not all alike and they even feature some interactive poems that require two voices. This is also good for introducing key vocabulary terms such as migration. I would use this in my classroom during science and language arts lessons to model different poems and then having the students create a poem about their favorite animal.