Holbrook, Sara. Weird? (Me, too!) Let’s Be Friends.

Holbrook, Sara.    Weird? (Me, too!) Let’s Be Friends.  

WordSong (Boyds Mills Press)  2011  56p   16.95 978-1-59078-821-9 

elm/ms                  VG-BNe      

This is a collection of poems about friendship in all of its aspects.  These poems

are very well crafted, and varied.  There are poems for two voices, poems that

rhyme and poems that do not.  Some of the poems are in free verse, others are in

meter.  All of them deal with the ups and downs of elementary-age and middle-

school-age friendships, and represent very genuine feelings that kids experience

with their friendships, both positive and negative.  The illustrations are

relevant and quirky, and add to the whimsical mood of the poems.

Interspersed with the poems there are suggestions for writing poetry, which a

teacher may want to use with a class.  A student who is “into” poetry may even

want to try some of these suggestions independently.        Kennedy, Carol