"Falling Down the Page" Compiled By: Georgia Heard

The book, Falling Down the Page, is a really neat book of poems. It is a book full of list poems. There are many variations of the list poem, and this book highlights the various ways to create a list poem. A few of the poems even combine the list poem method with other methods, such as call and response and multiple voice. The poems in this book highlight lists that can be made from the things we see everyday and at school. I really liked this book because everyone can relate to it because the poems are created from things that happen in our daily lives.
In addition to a great collection of poems I really liked how this book was set up. It's a very narrow book, and rather than opening it up horizontally it opens vertically. I liked this little twist to the book format. Although the pages aren't very colorful the format of the poems are very neat. The titles twist in all different directions, and each poem seems to be formatted differently. Some poems even make you rotate the direction of the book! I really enjoyed reading this book of poems. I can see this book being very useful in my class, especially because it relates to everyday events and school. Some of these poems would make great read-a-louds before activities. For example, there is a show and tell poem in here which would be a fun one to read before introducing show and tell to the class.