The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Keats, John

A Song About Myself

40 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-5090-2 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Chris Raschka. Keats's playful nonsense poem features the kinds of rhymes that children love to repeat, even if the words don't make complete sense to them. The old-fashioned vocabulary and dense sequences of words make this more of a book for one-on-one sharing than a group read, especially with the plethora of details in Raschka's watercolors. A joyful nonsensical experience for young listeners and readers.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2017