# 12 Giant Children

Giant Children
Author: Brod Bagert
Illustrator:Ted Arnold
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002
27 Pages


Poetry

          I chose this book because I loved the imagination and humor in the poems. This book depicts the huge imagination of a child and points out some of the things children seems to be able to create in thier minds. There are poems about being excited or scared about school plays, boogers, chocolate, stinky boys, and tooth fairies. These poems take seemingly simple subjects and make them extremely dramatic, just like children ellaborate.
          The illustrations in this book are done in color pencils and watercolor washes. The illustrator does an incredible job at depicting the funny expressions on the faces of the children and animals in each poem. The illustrations have plenty of bright colors in them to create a mood of edge.  The illustrator uses plenty of squiggly lines which add to the composition of each illustration to make the pictures come to life and not seem so dull.
         This book is appropriate for first through fourth grades. This book could be used to create a word work lesson involving rhyming, compoud words, and vocabulary. With a vocabulary lesson the book could be used as an example to introduce or ellaborate on adjectives and punctuations. This book has no awards or honors.