This rhyming story is a delight. A child has a poem in his pocket. When it falls out mayhem and trouble ensues. Brilliant colors used in the illustrations. This is one of my favorites.

Wonderful book to introduce young children to the world of poetry and rhyming words. My kids and I enjoyed the illustrations and coming up with different rhyming words. Thanks to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the early read.

A young poet’s words have escaped into the wind and cannot be easily retrieved. What ensues is a beautiful picture book with vibrant illustrations by Josee Bisaillon. The words are whipped about by the wind and mix with the illustrations to create a kind of hide-and-seek effect on each page. Words and puns are scattered about to be discovered on each page, lending itself to discussions about rhyme, figurative language and puns.
I imagine Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas will be used extensively in elementary schools, not just to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day, but to help young students explore words, puns, rhyming and rhythm.
Do not miss the final page with simple questions for discussion/exploration and links to National Poetry Month and Poem in Your Pocket Day!
Thanks to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Thanks to Kids Can Press & NetGalley for the review copy of Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas.

A fun, energetic, engaging ode to poetry and the ways in which words can move. Perfect for everyday and everyone, especially PreK and Early Elementary classrooms.

The book is written in couplets. There were many rhyming words. It gives the idea of brainstorming/starting the writing process It also gives the idea of using good vocabulary and word choice.

Great book, with short, rhyming verses that will appeal to children.
The books isn't just about reading the words either, there are things to look out for within the pages too which is a great way to keep kids interested.

This is such a sweet and funny book that will be adored by children, especially those that love puns and rhyming words! I would definitely use this in my kindergarten curriculum, especially for "Poem in My Pocket Day" in April, which the book explains at the end.

This book is about a child who has written a poem that then falls out of her pocket. The story then follows them trying to reclaim that poem.
It might be that I’m a sucker for poetry, especially rhyming poetry... but I really loved this book.
It offers so much in terms of linguistics and word play and has so many interactive elements in the pages that you can discuss and hunt for! If you love words, poetry and the art that is just writing then this is a great book.

In terms of teaching this offers so many opportunities that can be used in a variety of ways with different year groups. Poetry is an under appreciated work and I feel this book would be a great way to start talking about poems more. Not only does this book open the discussion about rhyming words - and being able to hunt them is even more fun! It also offers a chance to discuss spellings with jumbled up anagrams littering the pages, along with a range of idioms cleverly plotted through the pages. I’m sure I haven’t worked them all out yet! KS1 children would enjoy the story telling and the simple rhyming structure, for ks2 it can offer an even deeper look at language and how we use it, idioms and poetic language.

There are pages with words children could use to try and make their own poems with too.
The only thing I would have loved to see is the page with the tree and the words on the leaves, it would have been great to make them word families to add another level of learning but without this the book still is a great celebration of words and poems!

This storybook doesn't have a story but yes, it tells the story of how imagination works in the minds of writers! Kudos to the team for such encouraging storybooks which will motivate youngsters to write and read such books.

The illustration is just amazing! This is the kind of illustrated work that will lift up your spirits anytime when you pick it up.

Thank you, authors and the publisher for the advance reading copy.

A volume that I think, if nothing else, will make the young reader scour the page for the fullness of what it might bring. It's a book about words, poetry, authoring literature and having fun with poems, that depends on the visual aspect just as much as it does its own text. Our hero, if that's the right term, is carrying his latest piece of poetry in his pocket, but lo and behold, there's a tear in there and the words spill out. At first they form gobbledegook anagrams of themselves, then they form the most wonderful, punning connections with the world around them. And our lad just cannot get the piece back together, either in thought or on the page. What could be the result?

Well, a kind-of silly pun, is what. But that aside this is still fun, both being an entertaining way at presenting words that act as characters of their own, interacting with the world, and acting as an allusion to the power, the spread and the influence the right words might have. It might just inspire a young poet to put their words to the wind and see what becomes of them – it's apparently inspired by a day we must all have a potential poem in our back pocket to share with anybody we might meet, and no young author should be put off sharing their output. Here it's a random rip and the wind that scatters the work, and not a blog or an open mic, but as long as the writers are writing and the reader gets a chance to read it, then all is right with the world. This seemed at times an exceptionally clever amalgam of the author and the artist giving us the visuals, and for that it's definitely four stars.

With a fun and easy to read rhyming cadence, this book mixes word play and imagination into a delightful story. The illustrations are full of puns and funny sayings mixed with the background. There are lots of ways to get interaction with a child reader reading this story and teach them about language and poetry.

I loved this one! I love poetry and this one was super fun! I loved how the words were swirling and twirling and floating around the pages. I think children will like pointing out the different words on the pages and playing with their combinations to create their own poems. This is one I will be reading again and again.

Thanks NetGalley and the Publisher for this ARC!