Rosen, Michael. A Great
Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Candlewick Press, 2015. $19.99.
POETRY PICTURE BOOK.
Author Michael Rosen presents a wide-range of poems of
different lengths, styles, and complexity.
All the poems have either rhythm or rhyme (and often both) to create
delightful poems to read aloud. The poem, “Lunchtime” is a great example of
both rhythm and rhyme: “Time for lunch / Munch munch / Time for a munch / Crunch
crunch / Munch munch / Crunch crunch / Munchy munchy / Crunchy crunchy.” Rosen also uses repetition; in his poem “Oh
Dear”, the narrator went to the shop for a carrot and got a parrot. The narrator laments, “Oh dear! / Look what I
got / Do I want that? / No I do NOT!”
The narrator gets a cat instead of a hat, and so on. Chris Riddell’s watercolor and pencil
illustrations are warm, imaginative, inviting, and indispensable to the
storytelling of the poems. These poems
of humor, charm, and light-hearted fun paired with beautiful detailed
illustrations are sure to appeal to the “Very Young” and even older
children.
Pre-K, EL-ADVISABLE.
Samantha Hastings, MA, MLS.
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