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    Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
    Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
    Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
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    Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole

    By Irene Latham and Anna Wadham

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    Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores.

    Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781467772761
    Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
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    Irene Latham

    Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of poetry, fiction, and picture books. Her work includes Charlotte Huck Honor Book and ALA Notable Children's Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written with Charles Waters) and the Caldecott Honor Book The Cat Man of Aleppo(co-written by Karim Shamsi-Basha). In 2016 she won the ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award. Visit her at www.irenelatham.com.

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    • 4/5
      Poems accompanied with informational tidbits about a wide assortment of critters that partake of a water hole on African grasslands. Imaginative and appealing.
    • 3/5
      Personal Response- This book was filled with interesting illustrations and cool facts about the various animals that visit the watering hole. I thought it was neat that I learned about an animals I haven't heard about before. Curricular Connections- This would be a good book to read aloud for students. It could serve as an example of using different types of information on one page (poetry-rhyming and facts). I also noticed that the fonts changed from the fact box to the poetry box. They visually are different so they should be different visually so students know both are different types of information.

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