Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry Book

By Crew, Gary & Smith, Craig B.

Publishers Summary:
Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry Book follows Troy Thompson, a Grade 6 student, in his efforts to understand the art of peotry (poetry). It's a rocky but endlessly amusing road for Troy, as he stumbles over the Japanese form of 'Haiku', the ballad, the limerick and the sonnet. At the end of the year, Troy's poetry has well and truly improved and his respect for Ms Kranke, his teacher, has grown too! Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry Book is a highly entertaining introduction to poetry for school children, which can be read as a narrative as well as an easy-to-follow classroom guide for teachers. It is divided into assignments for the reader to follow and participate in and is peppered by Troy's doodles and margin comments to his teacher, sure to produce many laughs. Ms Kranke obviously has quite a soft spot for this cheeky young student, and encourages him on his way, whether writing of his love for his school sweetheart, Kylie, or revealing the heroic and moving death of his policeman father.

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ISBN
978-1-92913-252-2
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on January 1, 2004

Gr 4-7 At the beginning of sixth grade, Ms. Kranke introduces her students to a yearlong assignment in which they will learn about different forms of poetry and write their own. The best poems will be entered in a contest at the end of the year. One of the students, Troy Thompson, is a smart, funny kid who has had his share of heartache. He includes a ballad and a sonnet about his father, a police officer who was killed while on duty. Reader...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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