Beastly Rhymes to Read After Dark

By: Judy Sierra (2008)

This book contains lots of different poems about scary and creepy things that kids would enjoy. There are poems about giant anacondas, werewolves, and other scary things. The poems are all pretty short, and many have familiar rhyming schemes. I liked this book because the poems were all entertaining and funny.

I think that this would be a good book to read during Halloween time in your class as a teacher of younger elementary age students. The title and the cover were two things that initially drew me to the book, and I think that those same things would make this book appealing for those students as well. As a teacher, I may read a poem during the last few minutes of a class to get students to calm down during the occasionally difficult transition times. This may also be a good book to have students perform coral readings out of because the poems are funny and fun to read, with the rhyming that students enjoy.