Who said that poetry is not for children? They listen to it since they are babies in babysitters and children's songs and they are struck by the musicality of rhymes. Many puns are based on poetic resources and when they grow up children are encouraged to create their own rhymes. Yes, definitely, poetry is for children. But let's not start with Gongora.
Today we talk about a beautiful book of poetry which will bring the little ones closer to verses and rhymes, to a multitude of stories and musical games, "Gloria Fuertes for children". Not that it is one of my favorite authors, but it is certainly a good way to bring kids to poetry, for the simplicity of their verses and the proximity of their themes.
They are 170 carefully illustrated pages, with very striking drawings, full of details related to the poems that children observe with interest and thoroughness. They love, after having heard the poem, stop at the beautiful illustrations and keep reliving the verses in them.
The little reader finds in the pages of this anthology game, reinvention, nonsense, ingenuity, surprise, humor ..., and also deeply human and moral content such as love, loneliness, poverty, pain, justice, peace and religion.
The 50 poems, coming from different works of Gloria Fuertes and selected for this book, are subdivided into the following thematic sections: "Small bugs", "Poems to play", "Original characters", "Out loud", "Now in serious "and" glory in verse ".
Definitely, the book "Gloria Fuertes for children" brings children closer to poetry combining word and image, immerses them in a world of musicality, fantasy and curious games with language. More than one child will begin to create his own poems and become interested in the verses ... The work is edited by Susaeta and can be purchased for 15'95 euros.
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