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Lots of Spots
by
Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert is at her Ogden-Nashian best in this lively collection of poems about animal camouflage and adornment. Birds and beasts from all walks of the animal kingdom are gathered here, beautifully illustrated in Lois's signature bold and bright collage style. Complete with an Author's Note about the how-and-why of animal spots-and-stripes.
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
July 20th 2010
by Beach Lane Books
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Her art, as usual, just great. The rhymes are not always up to the level of the art and it feels like some were just tacked on. When they are clever, it really works and feels akin to Douglas Florian rhymes: "Lizards slither hither and thither." However. the lack of consistency is a tad annoying (as in " A nice thing about a butterfly is that it adds a spot of color to our habitat". Plus some of the rhymes give information and some are just nonsensical which is a bit jarring. She has set a high...more
Get this for the illustrations and that's it. The poems, for the most part, are horrible for out loud reading and some just plain suck either way. There are a very few that are actually okay.
I read another book recently, along the same lines as this, and can't remember the title. If anyone is interested in a good childrens book like this, check out the 'Julias-books' list I have - it's there and was read recently so search by date read and it'll pop up. Far better than this. The only thing that...more
I read another book recently, along the same lines as this, and can't remember the title. If anyone is interested in a good childrens book like this, check out the 'Julias-books' list I have - it's there and was read recently so search by date read and it'll pop up. Far better than this. The only thing that...more
The illustrations in this book are beautiful like all of Lois Ehlert's cut paper illustrations. But this book is definitely not one that can be read aloud. Perhaps it could be shared one-on-one with a child, but in a group setting the format would become confusing. Each page has more than one animal illustrated on it and then each of those animals has a short poem which identifies it. Some of the poems are cute but many feel forced with either the rhyme or the meter or both.
Might serve as a great introduction to a unit on animals, camouflague, or adaptations. With a sprinkling of poetry, alliteration, rhyme and rhythm this books walks students through all the ways spots, patterns and coloring are defining traits or characteristics of various animals. For more advanced students could be a good jumping off point for a discussion of fiction versus non-fiction as the picture book format with poetic language juxtaposes with a sprinkling of facts.
I enjoyed these poems and the art really added to it. Not too much real information, but enough to give readers a sense of the bird or animal that was being discussed. I could have wished for a more extensive end note with more details, and my library could have put the pocket somewhere else besides over the short note that was there!
The illustrations are wonderful examples of Lois Ehlert's work, and display a great variety of animals. The rhymes are somewhat flat. This book really needed more extensive endnotes, a bit about each animal, as other of Ehlert's books have had in the past. Visually fun to enjoy, but not memorable for any other reason.
Very interesting collage book with Ehlert's famous paper cutouts. The animals featured in the book are known for their many spots. Some of the animals are easily identifiable by lower elementary students while others were new to the kindergarten students I read this to. My students really enjoyed this book.
Oct 22, 2010
jacky
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
toddlers - primary
Shelves:
picture-books,
storytime
This was shared at story time at play group this week. The reader mostly talked about the pictures rather than reading the infromation about all the animals given the young age of the audience. Very nice artwork and a good selection of animals.
Aug 08, 2012
Molly
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This is a well written, aesthetically pleasing book sharing animal adaptations in nature. Cannot wait to share it with the Tiny Tracker class I teach. Love Lois Ehlert books and books that make kids wonder about nature!
With her collage art, Wisconsin resident Lois Ehlert shows off the many places and ways in which living creatures have spots and stripes. Short poems on many different birds, lizards and other animals are included.
I like the little poems of each animals but truly enjoy the way the book was produced. Each animal looks like it pops off the page. Even the boys run their fingers across the page thinking that it's textured.
Collage illustrations. All about animals with spots and some with stripes.
All quadratic poems with different rhyming patterns. Good for poetry unit/writing. I didn't LOVE the poems, but good.
All quadratic poems with different rhyming patterns. Good for poetry unit/writing. I didn't LOVE the poems, but good.
With her collage art, Lois Ehlert shows off the many plays and ways in which living creatures have spots and stripes. Short poems on many different birds, lizards and more complete this book.
This book provides simple rhyming text about many different animals, from birds, to fish, to mammals to reptiles. A child could look at the collage artwork for hours, there is so much to see.
Love her illustrations, which are paper cut out and arranged to be birds and various animals. Lots and lots of four-lined poems about the various animals - could be useful.
I'm not usually a fan of collages. The textures and shapes of the art work very well with the short poems. I'm going to recommend LOTS OF SPOTS to the art teacher.
Lots of Spots has Ehlert's beautiful collage work for which she's best known, it's a great book to share one-on-one, but not for storytime use.
Great illustrations and the poems are good too. I might be using this for my upcoming Spots & Stripes story time.
Use with students that love animals. Can teach rhyming patterns. Fun pictures with textures that look real.
Rhyming text and Ehlert's amazing paper cutouts showcase animals who sport spots and stripes.
Some of the animals has a lots of dots on their bodies
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A huge effort to illustrate such a book
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A huge effort to illustrate such a book
Lovely pictures, adequate text. The kids and I enjoyed this for the pictures.
Fun little rhyming quatrains about lots of different animals.
The rhymes are a little inconsistent, but the illustrations are good.
Five stars for the artwork, two, maybe three for the text.
Great illustrations but there wasn't really a story.
Beautiful pictures but sometimes tedious text
As gorgeous as all of Ehlert's books!
and a half....
Beautiful pictures
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