Product Description

Zigzag sandwiches zigzag lunch zigzag bananas in a zigzag bunch Zigga zagga zigga zagga zeet kids love zomething good to eat!

Celebrated word whiz Loris Lesynski is back with a poetry collection for her youngest fans. After hundreds of school visits, Loris Lesynski knows that kindergarten kids have their own kind of wit. Too old for nursery rhymes and too young for irony, kindergarteners crave a pure silliness that Zigzag supplies by the zillions!

Bursting with zaniness, these poems focus on the pleasure of sound and the rhythm of language, and each contains an inherent invitation to join in. Catchy rhymes like "Anything's a Drum Drum" and "TEE HEE HEE" prove that "knees can be a drum drum/both of them a fun drum" and encourage readers and listeners to "sing and shout/ time to let the noises OUT." With rhymes about subjects as simple and familiar as school, food and even walking, Zigzag demonstrates how much fun poetry, and everyday life, can be.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180640 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-K - Twenty-two silly rhymes about kindergarten life. Beginning with "Kindergarten Rocks!" the rollicking poems are full of energy and opportunities for participation. "Anything's a Drum" makes for an ideal action poem with the cadenced lines, "anything's a drum drum/a can can be a drum drum/tabletop's a drum drum/chair a double chum drum." There is a logical progression to the selections, beginning with a verse about the start of the school day and flowing naturally into offerings about art activities, the classroom hamster, alphabet and math games, walking home safely, and the comfort of an after-school kitchen. The watercolor cartoons show examples of student art projects and the joy of participating in classroom activities. Many of the selections are appropriate for fingerplays and action rhymes for storytimes, or could be used to fill spare moments between lessons. Pair this book with Joseph Slate's "Miss Bindergarten" titles (Dutton) and Nancy Carlson's Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! (Viking, 1999). - Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System, Madison, WI
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From Booklist
PreS-K. With interactive scenarios, thumping rhymes, and lots of repetitive nonsense, these "zoems" will have preschoolers joining in the words and movements. As with Mother Goose, the fun is as much in the silliness and the sounds of the words as in any meaning. The subjects are dear to the audience (mud, Popsicles, pets, paint, monkeys). Although this has neither the wealth of information nor the tender illustrations of Rosemary Wells' beautiful My Kindergarten [BKL Ag 04], it will be great for reading aloud, even with the lap-sitting audience, and the cheerful watercolor, pencil, and gouache art, with a touch of cartoonlike humor, adds to the appeal with images of kids jumping to the "zigga zagga beat." Hazel Rochman
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Review
Words are chosen carefully for their music as well as their meaning...color and humor bring the kindergarten experience to life. (Brenda Halliday Canadian Children's Book News )

Great for reading aloud... cheerful watercolor, pencil, and gouache art, with a touch of cartoonlike humor, adds to the appeal. (Hazel Rochman Booklist )

Rollicking poems are full of energy and opportunities for participation. (Shawn Brommer School Library Journal )