Winner of the 2023 Southern California Book Festival
Winner of the 2022 New England Book Festival for Poetry
Winner of the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Poetry, and Reviewer's Choice Award
Limerick Comics is a rare type of book that manages to educate, entertain, and enchant, all at once. It captures the timeless charm of witty limerick verse and anapest meter, while blending seamlessly with engaging nonfiction. The result is a playful collection that invites young readers to linger on each page to enjoy the humor of hyperbolic imagery, ponder inferences, and view the evocative details of each eye-catching illustrated panel.. It's a joyful reminder that learning can be as imaginative as it is enlightening.
The 32-page book offers lighthearted original limericks on a diverse range of history and science topics, accompanied by intriguing facts, presented in entertaining comics. For parents, teachers, and librarians the integration of poetry and nonfiction provides educators with endless cross-curricular applications along with a valuable resource for the development of fluency and prosody.
Add this playful book to home, classroom, school or public library collections, and nurture an appreciation of poetry, science, history, civics, and art.
About the Author :
Robert Hoyman is an award winning teacher whose journey spanned 41 years in classrooms in California, Virginia, and Florida. In the classroom, on the school stage, or on the playground, Robert's primary goal was to make learning FUN. Limerick Comics is his debut book.
Review :
Collected limericks for children ages 8 to 12 humorously present factual tidbits from science and history with comic-book-style illustrations.
"Both amusing and instructive, with broad appeal and excellent illustrations." Kirkus Reviews
Hoyman's playful but informative debut collection introduces children to the joy of limerick poetry while delivering fun facts about an array of subjects from everyday life and history.
Takeaway: For young readers and parents alike, this collection of factoid limericks will be a great introduction to poetry while delivering interesting knowledge and good laughs.
Great for fans of Garrison Keillor's Living with Limericks, the Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form project.
Production grades
Cover: A
Design and typography: A
Illustrations: A
Editing: A
Marketing copy: A
BookLife by Publishers Weekly
"Limerick Comics is such a fun, and surprisingly informative book!" 'Feathered Quill
"Hoyman and Feldman seem to have struck upon a fantastic vein in the nonfiction genre. Limerick Comics is a fun children's picture book that educates as wells as it entertains."-Literary Titan
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