LITERATURE
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Editor

Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees: School Poems

(3) K-3 I Can Read Book series. Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa. Twenty poems, with a good balance of free and formal verse, celebrate such school motifs as the bus driver, the class hamster, the school play, and even the backpack: "Zip it up. Off I ride, / everything I need inside..." Lighthearted but intensely colored illustrations support the poems, each of which gets its own double-page spread. Ind.

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