Right in time for National Poetry Month (April), at Growing With Science we have Spi-ku: A Clutter of Short Verse on Eight Legs by Leslie Bulion and illustrated by Robert Meganck.
Author Leslie Bulion has a subtly playful approach to spiders.
All spiders are arachnids
But some arachnids
mite not be spiders.
If you like that kind of word play, you are in for a real treat.
Illustrator Robert Meganck also has a subtle sense of humor. For example, in the front endpapers he shows a fly near a spider web. The back endpapers shows the same spider with a small webbed up package. He leaves it up to the reader to figure out what happened to the fly.
Intermingled between poems of different forms — in spite of the title, not all are haiku — is detailed information about spiders, from what they eat to how they build webs. If the text isn’t enough, there’s extensive back matter as well.
Spi-ku is perfect for budding arachnologists and poets alike. Readers are likely to find something new every time they read the book. Investigate a copy today!
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