Awesome Earth: Concrete Poems Celebrate Caves, Canyons, and Other Fascinating Landforms by Joan Bransfield Graham, Tania García
Published by Clarion Books ISBN: 0358396042
Genres: Nature, Poetry
Format: Picture Book Nonfiction
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Both young poets and scientists will enjoy this book of concrete poems about the wide variety of earth’s landforms. Each page explores a landform that is described by a poem whose text structure corresponds to the geological feature itself. The poems are easy to process and the illustrations are effective and simple enough to let the text catch the reader’s eye. There are a few pages of back matter that provide additional information about the land masses in traditional paragraph form. A good resource for either a poetry or earth science unit for younger grades.

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath