This Rock, That Rock: Poems between you me and the moon
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By Dom Conlon, and and, Vivian Schwarz
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To celebrate 50 years since the first moon landing by Apollo 11 in 1969, here is an original collection of 50 poems. In his poems Dom tells us of two important things – the Moon is incredible: it controls our tides, to give us 24-hour days and it keeps our planet stable enough to have seasons. Dom reminds us that poetry too is incredible because it is the most flexible form of expressing ourselves and has been always how we used to tell stories, particularly about our ways of seeing this incredible Moon. The Moon is an inspiring rock of possibilities. Dom uses lots of poetry forms, short poems and long ones, silly ones and serious ones. There are haiku and sonnets, acrostics and shapes. He uses metaphors and kennings and slang. Dom says read the poems and fly to the moon!
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A great book to get children talking about poetry. The poet introduces us to different types of poetry on the theme of space travel, and encourages the reader to read the poems out of order or skip poems they don't like. I really enjoyed the different styles of poetry and the illustrations accompanying them.
