[LM_NET] Hit: Haiku Poetry Books (Pt. 1)

[Rose Ann Heilemann <Libinfocom@AOL.COM>]

Hi,

Many thanks to those who responded.  I really need to order some of these
recommendations.  Here is Part 1.  There are some dupicate answers but the
comments were valuable.

  I have two books in our collection:  Haiku in English by Harold G.
Henderson (Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1967) and Haiku: the mood of the earth by Ann 
Atwood
(Scribners, 1971).  The Atwood book is a nice combination of photography and
poetry.  The Henderson book gives quite a bit of advice on the instruction of
this poetic form.

I would recommend 2 books:
A pocketful of poems by Nikki Grimes - for each poem, there is an
accompanying haiku
Fat Polka-dot cat and other haiku by Betsy Maestro - simple haiku that
kids can relate to.

Cool Melons- Turn to Frogs by Matthew Gollub
Don't Step on the Sky by Miriam Chaikin
If not the the Cat by Jack Prelutsky
In the Eyes of the Cat by Demi
Red Dragonfly on my Shoulder translated by Sylvia Cassedy
Spring by George Shannon
Stone Bench in an Empty Park selected by Paul Janeczko

This came to mind when I saw your posting:
USA Today has a daily haiku contest, and
some of their winners may be suitable for
your students.  go to www.usatoday.com
click "Life" section
scroll down, in purplish bar, click
"Daily Haiku Contest"

Cool Melons Turn to Frogs by Matthew Gollub is really cute and it also
tells the story of Issa.
If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky

Try  One leaf rides the wind : counting in a Japanese garden / by Celeste A.
Mannis

Pet Poems by Jennifer Curry is a good book for students. It's got a lot of
funny Haiku's and other forms of poetry. I used it in a poetry unit last spring.

Just today I used a brand new book by Jack Prelutsky called If Not for the
Cat which is sumptuously illustrated by Ted Rand. The first haiku reads "If not
for the cat, and the scarcity of cheese, I would be content."

I read the haikus without showing them the illustrations and allowed them to
guess the animal Prelutsky wrote about. They were very engaged. We counted
syllables once to twice to double check as well.

The essential haiku : versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa,  Edited and
with an introduction by Robert Hass.  This is the best book of Haiku I
have run across.  Some of the information may be above the 4th grade
level, but the poetry is beautiful.

Haiku : the travelers of eternity,  by Charles Chigna

Jack Prelutsky has a new one "If Not For the Cat".  There is also Cricket
Never Does by Livingston and Cool Melons Turn to Frogs by Gollub

I have the book Haiku by Charles Ghigna.
c2001  ISBN:0-913515-15-9
River City Publishing, Montgomery, AL  36101

Best,
Rose Ann Heilemann
SLMS
Errick Road Elementary
libinfocom@aol.com

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