Machine Poems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192760947 ISBN 13: 9780192760944

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Machines!! Washing machines that splash and splosh, cars that cough and click and rattle and whirr, tractors, trains, telephones, and vacuum cleaners -- they are all part of our lives, for better or for worse.
Jill Bennett and Nick Sharratt have collaborated once again and the result is a colorful, noisy, funny collection of poems about the mechanical side of life. Even robots and UFO's are included in this easy-to-read and fun-to-look-at anthology of short hymns of praise, frustration, and wonder.

About this title

About the Author

Jill Bennett has taught at all levels, from nursery school to teacher training.
Nick Sharratt is a free-lance artist living in Tooting, London.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 4-- As in Noisy Poems and People Poems (both Oxford University, 1990), this team has again collaborated on a collection of humorous verses. Bennett has gathered a dozen, mainly British poems with topics ranging from central heating to UFOs. Leland B. Jacobs's ``The Subway Train'' has been changed here to ``The Underground Train'' for the intended British audience; its acknowledgement is incorrect. This volume, with amusing and bright colored-pencil and crayon illustrations, is suitable for reading aloud to younger children. All of the poems have been previously published, but several of the original sources are out of print. Lee Bennett Hopkins's Click, Rumble, Roar: Poems about Machines (Crowell, 1987) is one of the few other books devoted to the subject. --Andrew W. Hunter, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg, Charlotte, NC
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Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192760947
• ISBN 13: 9780192760944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sharratt Nick
• Number of pages: 26
• Editor: Bennett Jill