Florian,
Douglas. 1999. LAUGH-ETERIA. Orlando,
FL: Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 0152020845
Plot
Summary:
Author,
Douglas Florian, supplies the reader with pages full of humorous poems, with
creatively simple drawings for each. The
topics are endless ranging from “The Last Piece of Cake” to “If You Suffer
Smelly Feet” to “Sigh-clops”. There is
something for everyone within the pages of Laugh-eteria.
Critical
Analysis:
Rhyme
and rhythm are plentiful throughout the book.
Readers will find the poems fun and easy to read with these
features. The addition of the drawings
for each make the poems even more interesting and bring the readers attentions
to specific details that might otherwise be overlooked. In the poem “Fishy”, one might think of a
small fish truly biting “… cousins Jay and Joel”, but with the addition of the
picture, the reader is able to imagine that there once were three people in the
boat with a huge fish below.
Reviews:
·
Kirkus: “Florian’s language and simple, thick-lined
cartoons illustrations are equally ingenious, and he sticks to tried-and-true
subjects, from dinosaurs to school lunch …”
·
Publishers
Weekly: “Florian repeatedly shows that
he knows what makes kids giggle.”
Connections: Age Level:
7 and up
·
Rhyming
Scheme
o
Use
poems like “Bad Beds” or “Pass Out” to model various types of rhyming scheme
for students.
o
Allow
them to gain insight/inspiration from the pictures Florian adds to each poem.
o
Then
allow them to create their own poem with a similar rhyming scheme with an
addition to their own illustrations as well.
·
Alliteration
and Internal Rhyme
o
Modeled
perfectly in “Batty”
o
Allow
students to create their own poetry using alliterations and internal rhymes.
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