Whether you are looking for a rainy-or-too-hot summer day activity, or a beginning of school project, book spine poetry may be just the thing. Book spine poetry is not difficult to construct, but with it you can create poems ranging from the silly to the profound. The concept is simple. Take a book with a title on its spine. Put another book on top and continue stacking until you’ve created a poem that can be read from top to bottom (or side to side).
Artist Nina Katchadourian’s sorted books project has examples of book spine poetry using clever juxtapositions that are fun for adults or older students. But even young children can stack books, and picture book spines can be ideal for stacking. Imagine a stack with the titles:
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
What fun! Take a look around the house, or take a seat on the library floor, and see what stacks you can make. You may be surprised at the poetry right before your eyes!
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My oldest son Harrison loved these! We will have to make some today!
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We did it! The boys had so much fun! I would love to be able to do this as a literary station. Oh think of the possibilities!
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Wonderful! Would you/they like to share an example or two?
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I put it on my blog–do you want it posted here too! Some that were not posted:
Mary Poppins
The Girl who Played with Fire
Mary Poppins
The Girl who could fly
First Day Jitters
Inkheart
Highest Duty
Harry Potter
The Maze Runner
It Takes a Village
Mary Poppins
The Help
Takes a Village Idiot.
(We had two copies of Mary Poppins so Joshua put it in there.)
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