Poetry: Dream

Dream
Susan V. Bosak
15 Top World Illustrators(Wayne Anderson, James Bennett, Christian Birmingham, Mike Carter, Raul Colon, Leo and Diane Dillon, Zhong-Yang Huang, Robert Ingpen, Steve Johnson, Lou Fancher, Michele Lemieux, Barbara Reid, Shaun Tan, Bruce Wood)
Copyright 2004
TCP Press
16 pages
Poetry

The poems are written in free verse which I really enjoyed. They are separate poems that depict a child growing up and how their dreams change. Their favorite colors change, thier goals change, and their hopes change. Throughout the book, there are quotes from famous speakers and poets such as Emily Dickenson and Martin Luther King Jr. It was a very inspirational group of poems!

I am absolutely obessed with the illustrations in this poetry book! There are so many different mediums used as there are fifteen different illustrators to the book. One that I cound particulary interesting was done out of clay. There are several that are multimedia as well. I also really enjoyed one that was a pencil sketching. The illustrations really bring a unique quality to the poems making them come to life in a way I have never seen before. I really enjoyed them!

This book of poems would be a great way to introduce free verse. It would also be a good way to have the students write their own free verse poetry and about their hopes and dreams that they have for when they get older. There are also many references to historical figures such as Albert Einstien and Charlie Chaplin. You could easily use this collection to teach a history lesson on any of these figures and the dreams they had to make them who we know them to be today.