Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Behind the Museum Door by Jee Bennett Hopkins & Stacey Dressen-McQueen

A collection of poems about what may be found in museums around the world. From dinosaur bones to tapestries from the middle ages to natural histories of animals such as the Wooly Mammoth, displays are described in poems and illustrated in colorful artwork depicting kids enjoying the various displays.

Merit: Creative verse and artwork introducing human and planetary history as presented in museums.
Share: Read-to & self-read by older kids.
Appeal: Colorful artwork & descriptive verse.

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