Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 14, 2014

Review

Lewis and Florian have a winner with this book. The poems all center around imaginative, silly cars/vehicles. The rhymes are fun, easy to understand (with a few references that might have to be explained, but don't detract much from the overall context, ie, Zanzibar, Model T), and appeal to the silliness of childhood. Who doesn't want a "Banana Split Car?" The illustrations by Jeremy Holmes can be studied--they have depth and great movement. The colors are appealing and the cars are given character (in a better-than-Disney way). Highly recommended - as a read-aloud, as a book to give to a child who would pour over the pictures, for use with an older elementary student studying poetry.

Overall Book Score: excellent