Poetry For Children
All the World Author: Liz Garton Scanlon Illustrator: Marla Frazee Award: Caldecott Honor Medal This children's picturebook is about the simple things in life that makes up all of the world. These are things wide and deep, a garden bed, old and new, the sky. Things that make the world go round, cold and hot, and make it still. The author also says that the world can also be found in you and me, in everything, in all of us. I thought this book would be perfect to discuss unity in the classroom. How are all of these things similar? How are we all similar? I also think it has a hook to it that will catch the readers. There is a four word cadence that the author uses in this poem. Ever four words describe something that makes up all the world. For example, "Rock, stone, pebble, sand. Body, shoulder, arm, hand. A moat to dig, a shell to keep. All the world is wide and deep." The illustrations also incorporates this concept of unity. There is diversity amo...
