Dirty Laundry Pile

Dirty Laundry Pile
Poems Selected By:  Paul B. Janeczko
Illustrated by:  Melissa Sweet
Harper Collins Publishers
Copyright 2001
Poem Genre

                                                                 Dirty Laundry Pile

     This book is a fun collection of poems by various authors. Every poem is spoken from the voice of something other than a humans. For example, my favorite poem, which also happens to be the title of the book, is Dirty Laundry Pile. It is a funny and sarcastic poem from the voice of a dirty and smelly pile of laundry. The illustrations in this book add to some of the humor the poems have. They are bright ad very colorful, which helped me to enjoy the reading more. The poems are short and the entire book is a fast read. I would like to use this in my own classroom. I think the students would laugh at some of the poems because people rarely take time to think about what it must be like to be, for example, a dirty laundry pile or sky blue crayon. It would be such a fun way to teacher students, especially young students, to try to imagine what you would experience as something other than a human. Then it would be fun and probably give you a laugh to have the student write their own poems spoken in different voices.