Poet Extraordinaire!

April 15, 2010
Grades 1-3 With her typical flair and exuberance, Fancy Nancy Clancy describes her class poetry unit in this upbeat series installment. After learning about poetic forms, Nancy and her best friend, Bree, head off to their clubhouse, newly retrofitted into a palace of poetry, to write their own verse, but Nancy runs into a bad case of writers block. With support from her parents and teacher, she finds inspiration, and after penning a sweet ode, she puts together an anthology to collect her favorite poems. Upbeat and instructive, this cheerful introduction to poetry is an easy fit for the elementary-school language-arts curriculum.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)