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Poem in My Pocket
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Rhyming, fanciful allegory of the creative writing process. When a childs carefully written poem slips out of a ripped pocket, its words join randomly with other words to form funny riffs and puns all over a busy city street. The child scrambles to capture the loose words and arrange them back into poem form, only to lose them again as a storm swoops in. Eventually, the words plant themselves in the muddy ground, growing into something that might be even better than the original poem: a Poet-Tree. A poem is never really lost. The words may just need a little room to play.
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madsfisher0531
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted. I had set my story free! That poem in my pocket turned into a POETREE“

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madsfisher0531
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This book can be used to teach students rhyming words by doing a rhyming word search as the book is read.

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madsfisher0531
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas was published in 2021. This story symbolizes how the story flows from the main character. The main character experiences a rip in his pocket that he does not know about. The hole demonstrates the words falling out rhythmically.

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Kaylee.Phillips2
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted. I had set my story free! That poem in my pocket turned into a POETREE“

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Kaylee.Phillips2
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted. I had set my story free! That poem in my pocket turned into a POETREE“

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Kaylee.Phillips2
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This book can be used to teach students rhyming words by doing a rhyming word search as the book is read.

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lilliangermaine
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted. I had set my story free! That poem in my pocket turned into a POETREE“

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Kaylee.Phillips2
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas was published in 2021. This story symbolizes how the story flows from the main character. The main character experiences a rip in his pocket that he does not know about. The hole demonstrates the words falling out rhythmically.

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lilliangermaine
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This book can be used to teach students rhyming words by doing a rhyming word search as the book is read.

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lilliangermaine
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas was published in 2021. This story symbolizes how the story flows from the main character. The main character experiences a rip in his pocket that he does not know about. The hole demonstrates the words falling out rhythmically.

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jbernath
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted. I had set my story free! That poem in my pocket turned into a.. POETREE!”

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jbernath
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

I Loved this book. I think that it did a wonderful job highlighting poetry. The journey that the child follows makes a great journey for children to follow along with. I think the ending is very fun and brings the whole story together. This would be a wonderful read aloud for all grades!

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jbernath
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas was published in 2021. A child carefully written book falls out of his pocket. As the words from the poem begin to slip out of his pocket, they begin to write the town with words. As he begins to collect the words again, they are swopped back falling into the mud. But soon they form into a beautiful tree painting a wonderful POETREE!

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miles.bryant
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

“The seeds of thoughts were planted.
I had set my story free!
That poet in my pocket turned into a....
Poetree!“

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miles.bryant
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This book would be great for students of any age, but I would recommend to use it in a k-3 environment. When students are learning about poetry they can read this book and see how enjoyable poems can be when they are accompanied with visuals and use many different poetry conventions.

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miles.bryant
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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This book of poems uses constant rhyming and alliterations. This creates a fast paced reading experience that is full of fun imagery while maintaining a great story in the center. The book has uses of clever word play that allows the readers to create mental imagery along with the imagery in the book.

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sophiekinnett
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This poem book was a very fun read. Each page had a rhyme to it and there was a fun metaphor throougout the book. It was saying as if a poem was a tangible thing that was falling out of the kids pocket. It also had a very fun play on words with “poetree“ becasue it made a tree. Overall very fun book.

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bkloppman
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

The seeds of thoughts were planted.
I had set my story free!
That poet in my pocket turned into a…
Poetree!

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bkloppman
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas

This book is a fun read for students of any age, but particularly K-2 or even 3 will enjoy finding all the wordplay in the pictures. This book would be a great morning meeting book or an introduction to poetry as it has rhyme and alliteration.

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bkloppman
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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This books use of constant rhymes and alliterations makes this a fast paced read full of fun imagery and with a great story at the heart of it all. This poetry book uses clever wordplay to illicit pictures in the readers mind.

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LibrarianRyan
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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This was a lot of fun. A child had a poem in their pocket but it fell out and blew around town. The words and letters get jumbled up and they have a hard time putting them back together. This was really well done and the illustrator did a fantastic job of matching the action of the words to the story. I love everything about it.

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WanderingBookaneer
Poem in My Pocket | Chris Tougas
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Cute story, it is supposed to be an allegory for the writing process, but what I‘ll remember most were the gorgeous illustrations and the puns.

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