Good Morning to You, Valentine

Good Morning to You, Valentine

Title: Good Morning to You, Valentine

Genre: Poetry

Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins

Illustrator: Tomie de Paola

Awards: None

Age group: 6 yrs. old and up

From looking at the cover, initially I thought this could be really cute. But after a quick read I found only some of the poems that I really liked. But this book is a great themed book with cute illustrations that is great for Valentine’s Day.

Summary:

In this book it has multiple poems from famous authors and others, it’s meant for Valentine’s Day. Most of the poems are meant for a person’s valentine or love. There are many styles of poetry in this book and also the poems range from common love poems to quite original ones. Like this one that I liked “Oh, golden heart, be on your way. Go, speed along to sweetly say that on this good St. Valentine’s Day a heart is meant to give away”. An example of a smaller poem from the book would be “Roses are red Violets are blue are you for me? I am for you!” This book does not have any particular order or storyline so there is no specific ending.

I don’t think I’d personally use the WHOLE book in the classroom because not all of the poems are great. I would probably only use this around Valentine’s Day for a quick poem or two to read to the class and maybe for the kids to pick out a poem if they need it for fun.

The appropriate grade level I believe for this book is 1^st -3^rd grade because this does have longer poems and vocabulary that are meant for the upper level readers. But I believe this book could be great for all ages as well.

If I was to use this book, I would use it as a read aloud and activity. I would do this assignment on or around Valentine’s Day. First, I would pick a few of the best poems from it. Then after I read it, I would have them go and create their own poems for their very special valentines.

HAVE FUN READING!💙-Lacy