Sing a Song of Popcorn (1988)
Sing a Song of Popcorn is a 1988 english poetry book written by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers and Marcia Brown.
A fat, friendly anthology of 115 poems gathered for young readers, ranging from weather and seasons to spooky rhymes and pure nonsense. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers and her co-editors arrange the verses by mood, and nine Caldecott Medal winners each illustrate a section, so every turn of the page brings a new artist's hand. Familiar names sit beside playful discoveries. The book works as a read-aloud for a lap, a classroom, or a child sounding out lines alone. Bright and generous, it is built to be pulled off the shelf season after season.
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What is Sing a Song of Popcorn about?
A fat, friendly anthology of 115 poems gathered for young readers, ranging from weather and seasons to spooky rhymes and pure nonsense. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers and her co-editors arrange the verses by mood, and nine Caldecott Medal winners each illustrate a section, so every turn of the page brings a new artist's hand. Familiar names sit beside playful discoveries. The book works as a read-aloud for a lap, a classroom, or a child sounding out lines alone. Bright and generous, it is built to be pulled off the shelf season after season.
When was Sing a Song of Popcorn published?
Sing a Song of Popcorn was published on 1 December 1988.
Who made Sing a Song of Popcorn?
Sing a Song of Popcorn was written by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers and Marcia Brown.
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A few thoughts on Sing a Song of Popcorn
Read it beside Disney's Fantasia, where music and image pair the way these poems pair with their illustrators, or Sesame Street, which taught a generation that verse and rhythm are toys. Both share this book's belief that art aimed at children can be playful and beautiful without ever talking down to them.
Nursery rhyme and read-aloud collections for the youngest ears
Sing a Song of Popcorn gathers its rhymes the way any good nursery anthology does, built for a lap, a classroom, or a child reading alone. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, Mother Goose, and Gregory Griggs and Other Nursery Rhyme People share that same lap-sized rhythm, The Queen of Hearts keeps an older rhyme alive in its illustrated edition, and Sesame Street builds a show on the same idea.
Playful, slightly wicked verse that kids ask to hear again
Sing a Song of Popcorn leaves room for spooky rhymes and pure nonsense alongside the gentle stuff, the same range Shel Silverstein works in Falling Up and Maurice Sendak works in We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. A Child's Calendar turns the same instinct toward the seasons instead of silliness, and Flutter & Hum keeps the wordplay light while finding something strange in an ordinary yard.
Illustrated seasonal and nature poetry to pull off the shelf all year
Sing a Song of Popcorn hands its poems to nine different Caldecott illustrators, so the art changes as often as the mood, the same seasonal care that runs through Flower Fairies of the Winter and Flower Fairies of the Spring. How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird turns one poem into its own picture book, and Treasury of Christmas Stories leans fully into a single holiday instead.
Anthologies built from many different artists' voices in one book
Sing a Song of Popcorn is really nine different illustrators taking turns inside one book, an idea Fantasia borrows for music instead of verse, letting a different animated segment interpret each piece. The Classic Hundred and Anthology of Children's Literature both gather many different voices under one cover the same way, and Childcraft turns that same instinct into a whole shelf a family returns to for years.