Dear parents,

This book features poems written from a child's perspective, providing insight into their experiences and emotions. This book allows children to read poetic texts that they can relate to, as they express their thoughts and feelings. The book also introduces them to other children who have similar thoughts and feelings. Additionally, this literary genre, written in a simple and accessible language, offers children an opportunity to express themselves.

The collection of poems in this book, titled “Playful Poems,” provides a glimpse into the experiences of children and allows parents to understand their behaviour and thoughts better. Moreover, the use of humour creates a light-hearted atmosphere and helps to build a closer relationship between parent and child.

The poetic language used in the book is designed to be easily accessible to children, with a focus on making it vocal and memorable. This not only enriches a child’s vocabulary, but also develops their auditory-perceptual skills and appreciation for poetry.

Let’s Talk

• About the title: we can ask our children about why they think the book is called “Playful Poems.” What does the word playful mean? And why are these poems platful?
• About the content of the poems: we can ask our children: who is “the master of chaos” referred to in one of the poems? Who broke the glass and turned off the __, and why? And why did one of the children claim that he is “no one?” how can the poet plant a planet with love?
• About the experience of the child: we can ask” did you ever joke with someone? How was their reaction? Which days are your favorite? How do you like to style your hair?
• About our poetic memory: we can try to remember and recite poems that we have memorized or loved during our childhood, and we can talk with our children about experiences that we have faced.

Let’s Explore

• Parents and children can also read the poems aloud together and explore the rhyme in each one.

Let’s Create

• The poems contain similes, such as “hours are sweet like honey,” and parents can encourage their children to come up with their own analogies, such as: smooth like…, green like…., happy like…

Let’s Enrich our Language

• New words that are introduced in the poems can be explained and repeated to further enrich the child’s language skills, for example: seriousness, play, I saw, I want, hairpin, truck, lighthouse.

Let’s Have Fun

• The illustrations in the book are full of playful details, providing an additional source of enjoyment for both parent and child as they search for hidden elements together.

Enjoy your reading!