Creating book spine poems is great fun and is an enjoyable school or home library activity. They’re so simple to do! Just browse a bookshelf, choose titles that you can put together to make a short poem or story and then take a picture of the book spines. We had lots of fun creating ours!
Our first book spine poem is about going to bed;
- What’s The Time, Mr Wolf? (Debi Gliori)
- Time For Bed Fred (Yasmeen Ismail)
- I Am Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To Bed (Lauren Child)
- Ten In The Bed (Penny Dale)
- Matilda (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake)
- Teddy Robinson (Joan G. Robinson)
- Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne and E. H. Shephard)
- Corduroy (Don E. Freeman)
- Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren and Lauren Child)
- The Storm Whale (Benji Davies)
- The Bedtime Bear (Ian Whybrow and Axel Scheffler)
- Shifty McGifty And Slippery Sam (Tracey Corderoy and Steve Lenton)
- Mucky Duck (Sally Grindley and Neil Layton)
- Peace At Last (Jill Murphy)
Our second book spine poem is about animals and dancing!;
- Have You Seen The Crocodile? (Colin West)
- Dangerous! (Tim Warnes)
- Crunch! (Carolina Rabei)
- But I Am An Alligator (Lauren Child)
- Doing The Animal Bop (Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner)
- Wow! Said The Owl (Tim Hopgood)
- Dogs don’t do Ballet (Anna Kemp and Sarah Ogilvy)
- Giraffes Can’t Dance (Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees)
Our third book spine poem is abut transport;
- We Completely Must Go To London (Lauren Child)
- Where’s The Bus? (Eileen Browne and James Croft)
- The Hundred Decker Bus (Mike Smith)
- Blown Away (Rob Biddulph)
- On The Way Home (Jill Murphy)
We could have created so many more poems. Imagine how much fun you could have doing this in the library!
The learning doesn’t need to stop with creating poems. Children can also be encouraged to sort their book poems alphabetically by title, author or illustrator. If they’re working in the library they will also need to understand the Dewey system to make sure that they put the books back onto the right shelves!
In December we created Christmas book spine poems. You can read our ‘Christmas poems’ in this blogpost.
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