"A Child's Calendar"

By John Updike
Illustrated by Trina Shart Hyman
Published in 1999

     This book is a book of poems for each month of the year. I really liked how there were pictures in color to go along with each poem, depicting a certain description. Although all the poems were very good there was no variety in the style of poems. There was a lot of personification which i think added to illustrating the poems in our minds.
     I would use this book and read from it each month. I would ask the students in a class discussion if they agree or disagree with the description? Or maybe there are just certain parts they would change? Then spilt them up into small groups and each group has to come up with one or two stanzas that they think describe the month we are in. Then we will put every ones together to have our own class month poem book!