When Riddles Come Rumbling: Poems to Ponder

by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Karen Dugan (Illustrator)

Overview

Here are twenty-nine rhyming riddle poems about everyday objects that children love: roller coasters, trampolines, kites, yo-yos, licorice, and more. With plenty of clues in each rhythmic verse and in the colorful illustrations, children of all ages will enjoy guessing these riddles and challenging one another to the answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620910313
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Kai Dotlich is the author of over a dozen poetry and picture books, including Grumbles from the Forest (co-authored with Jane Yolen) and Lemonade Sun. She's been a poetry advisor and contributing columnist for Creative Classroom and Teaching K-8, gives numerous poetry workshops, including Highlights Founders workshops, and speaks at national conferences, retreats, libraries, and schools to teachers, aspiring writers, and students of all ages. She lives near Indianapolis, Indiana.

Karen Dugan has illustrated many books for children, including Camping with the President by Ginger Wadsworth, In the Spin of Things by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, and Tea Party Today by Eileen Spinelli. She lives in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

Children will enjoy the simple rhythmic poetry as much as the word puzzles in these clever riddles in verse. —Booklist

From the Publisher

Gr 3-6-Dotlich presents 29 short, descriptive, rhyming poems about everyday ideas and objects such as a telephone, soup, fireworks, a hula hoop, and an octopus, ending with a poet. Readers must guess what each poem is about and are helped by the realistic pictures that provide a two-inch border around each one. In addition to the riddle element, each picture also contains jumbled alphabet letters that spell out the poem's subject. Several of the entries are not obvious but the illustrations do help readers to ponder the solutions. If all else fails, the answers appear in fine print at the bottom of the copyright page. Children will enjoy these riddle poems either one-on-one or in a group setting.- Cathie Reed, The Montessori School, Lutherville, MD Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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