Author: - Charles Ghigna
Title: - Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud
Illustrator: - Gabriel
Publisher: - Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Year: - 1999
Format: - Hard Cover
Genre: - Poetry
Reading Level: - Early Elementary
Interest Level: - Assisted Reader
Topics: - Animals, Chickens, Bears, Donkeys, Cows, Giraffes, Bunnies, Monkeys, Puppies, Goats, Crocodiles, Kittens, Lambs, Tigers, Snakes
Summary: - On each flip of the page, this book has a poem about a different animal. Each poem describes what the animal does, the noises it makes, and so on.
Extension Activities: - For this book, one activity you could do, is have the children write a poem about their favorite animal. To go along with this, you could have the children make a mask or a puppet of their animal and read it to the class. Another activity you could do is create a poem about animals as a class, and make a "classroom zoo" on a bulletin board. It would have the poem written on it and every child could make an animal to be put in the zoo.
