Genre: Poetry
Age: Primary/intermediate
Media: Watercolor
Review/critique: This boy needs a place to be silly so he visits Silly Street. All of the poems are about things you can see and do on silly street. This is a collection of poems that can stand alone but all tie into this idea of Silly Street where everything gets to be very silly. ( )

I loved this poem book. It was fun and imaginative to read. The main idea of Silly Street is the importance of your imagination. I enjoyed the fun language use throughout the poems. For example, “Oh my, what is it’s?” This line was from the poem pet-a-polooza. The animals were all around and you had to catch all the different animals. Another element I liked was the exaggeration of text. For example, the backer had made one huge pancake in town. “But it took four hundred people a while year to eat it.” The illustrations were goofy and shown a creative imagination. I love when movement is captured in the artwork of a story and that was majority of all the illustrations. The colors were vibrant, the people had exaggerated facials, and the pictures were busy with clusters of images. Overall a great poem book to read. ( )

Summary: This children's poetry book is centered around a make-believe place called Silly Street. The author is telling children about a place they can go when they are feeling silly. This place is like an out of control carnival that has games, shops, accessories and are run by crazy people with creative names. Each event or place on silly street has a poem that describes what it is. Each poem has rhyming and made- up words to give the stories a silly edge.

Argument: I liked this children's poetry book for many reasons and would highly recommend it for a classroom setting. The first reason I liked it was for its illustrations. Every page has images and actions of people and animals doing crazy things that all children could relate to and enjoy. I also like how each illustration completely describes the poem or text that goes with it, to give the children a very detailed vision of silly street in their minds. For example, the poem titled "Phil's Fluffy and White" has a picture of a bunch of people eating a huge pancake. The second reason I enjoyed the silly street poems was for its story/content. This book was not just a bunch of random poems about different topics put together-this book featured a place called silly street and each poem had to do with a place on silly street. Everything was connected and related in some way making it flow together. I also loved the rhyming and silly names used in the poems. The rhyme made the story flow together and roll off your tongue-it enticed me as a reader and kept me interested. The silly names and types of animals and objects just added to the overall craziness of the book that all children would enjoy.
Surprisingly, there was a main idea to this fun book of poems with all its nonsense and silliness. This book told children that it is okay to be a kid-children are supposed to be fun, silly, daydreaming, creative little troublemakers. It let them know that they are not the only ones who feel this way and they should not be stifled from others. It is also gives children ways to express themselves and get their energy out. ( )

This was long winded. I was halfway through the book when I realized they were poems. (duh, you've been reading too much that everything is starting to meld together, says I.) Classic Foxworthy fart humor. The boys will love it! ( )

This was a really good book of rhyming! There seem to be sub stories within the story, but it was great because there was a description of all that was on "silly street". I thought the book was really good and helped with rhyming and word association. ( )