Are you a guy? Think you don't like poetry? Then I highly recommend taking a look at Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys. I guarantee you will be proven wrong. What is haiku, you ask? Haiku poems are short observations about nature. Each poem is only three lines long - with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. In Guyku, Bob Raczka has included poems about all of his favorite things to do when he was a boy: splashing in mud puddles, collecting bugs, climbing trees, etc. Here's one of my favorites:
If this puddle could
talk, I think it would tell me
to splash my sister.
Want to check this book out? This book is shelved with our NEW Nonfiction under the call number, J 811.6 RACZKA.
talk, I think it would tell me
to splash my sister.
Want to check this book out? This book is shelved with our NEW Nonfiction under the call number, J 811.6 RACZKA.
