Today's thematic poetry list is fairy tales. Fairy tales are one of my favorite things along with poetry.
- Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer
- Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
- Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen & Rebecca Kai Dotlich
- Sleep Tight, Snow White: 15 Bewitching Bedtime Rhymes by Jen Arena
- Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine (not all of the poems are fairy tale themed, but there are a few)
- You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Resources
- Educator's Guide for the You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series on the publisher's website
- Consider using Fairly Fairy Tales by Esmé Raji Codell to create your own fairy tale poems. For example, Jack and the Beanstalk but with spaghetti.
- In the introduction (pp. 18-23) to Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It, Levine gives advice about how to write your own false apology poems. You might also take a look at her two creative writing books, Writing Magic and Writer to Writer.
- In a note to readers at the beginning to Grumbles from the Forest, the authors invite readers to try their hands at writing their own fairy tale poems from a different perspective.
- At the end of Mirror Mirror, Singer introduces the reverso, a poetic form she created, and invites readers to try their hand at writing one.
Links to My Reviews
- Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
- Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
- Sleep Tight Snow White: 15 Bewitching Bedtime Rhymes
- Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems
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