Joyful Noise: A Newbery Award Winner

"Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices" can be enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in poetry, but I believe it will be a wonderful classroom resource. Literature involves not only novels, but also poetry." Joyful Noise" can be read by the entire class, allowing everyone to participate. The verses can be challenging (and the vocabulary is suited for older students), but it is fun and entertaining to attempt to read them correctly. "Joyful Noise" can also be used across the curriculum. The poems are about insects (I especially love the poem 'Fireflies'), and they would be ideal for integration into science lessons, with children researching an insect from the book. Students could do art after reading one of these poems, creating pictures to describe what they've read. Writing skills could be built by allowing students to create their own poems for two voices. Vocabulary could be strengthened by, as a class, looking up the more difficult words and clarifiying everyone's understanding. All in all, this is a very special book, whether it's kept for personal enjoyment or is shared with children!

5/5 starsThis book has many stories within the poeoms you read. It is great to read and use for special education.

Reading a poem in a turn-taking fashion with a child brings great joy for adult and child. The interplay of the two voices in different forms, goes beyond the experience of simple poetry reading. This is a celebration of language with nature as the subject.

It's not everyday that a book about bugs delights me, but put bugs describing their lives, poetry, and vivid pen and ink drawings into a collection and there's definitely a winner!Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman sounds like a gospel hymnal my grandmother would have carried to church each Sunday, but after glancing at the cover, you will find that those sounds come from nature's creation, called insects.This poetry collection boasts 14 of the most adorable poems, all spoken in the voices of the bugs they represent, all to be read aloud with someone- sometimes one at a time, sometimes simultaneously- all in the merry tradition of Frere Jacques, an elementary school classic.Joyful Noise celebrates natures insect world from the water strider who "whenever we're asked/ we walk upon water" to the book lice "who dwell who dwell/ in these dusty bookshelves." My favorite of all the poems in this book, however, was 'Chrysalis Diary.'Paul Fleischman has created a wonderfully unique book that could be used in a variety of ways. As a workshop creator, I see writing and art possibilities, using the poems as spring boards for creativity for almost any age group.The teacher in me sees Mr. Fleischman's book as an opportunity to make learning fun by having youth research the insects they are most drawn to, creating the perfect presentation/study project, and working across multiple subjects to maximize learning potential.And as a poetry lover, well, as a poetry lover I see the lives of wonderful insects jump off the page through renga-like poems, with sing songy verse and lively drawings, brought to life by two voices, reciting aloud, in perfect harmony.Whether you are looking for poems moving enough to touch your heart, or funny enough to make you giggle your sadness away, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices is amazing and should be the one poetry book no home is without!

I remember first seeing this book when I was a kid in school. I always wanted someone to read it with me. So I bought it for my classroom. It's so fun to read with someone and hear the music-like creation. I love it!

I would never have thought of writing poetry about bugs but Flieschmann not only thought about bug poetry, he wrote it and the insights he had are fabulous. The cicada poem was my favorite. I want to hear these poems read.

Love this book. Had it when my children were young and we would read it together when they were old enough. We all loved it - educational in a fun way. Gave it away when the children were grown, and regretted it, and bought this replacement when my oldest became a mom!

We are a family of home schoolers and we love poetry around here. We do poetry tea time once a week and this book has been a great addition to that. The poems are great and it's so much fun to be able to make it interactive like this. Definitely a keeper!

More fun than board games ! Reading can be a social activity. Fun for two people to read together; by yourselves, even more fun in a group. When I was teaching, my teaching partner and I would give dramatic (!) recitations to our students. They soon caught on and started to adapt poems in this and other favourite books to present their own readings to the class. You can adapt the parts to even more voices and have a voice choir, too.

I thought this was a novel approach to Poetry. SO much so that my fellow poet and I did a live performance of some of the poems at a local session. When you perform them with two people they really come alive. Some how giving character and form to all the insects featured.Not just a kids book

"２声で声に出して読むために書かれた詩”と原書のレビューに紹介されています。殿様バッタ、水澄し、蜻蛉、蛍、蝉、本に住む虱　など小さいたちの暮らし、思いを感覚的に捕えて2verseの掛け合いのように構成されたリズミカルな詩集。子供対象になっていますが、もちろん大人でも十分に味わい深く、実際に声に出して朗読したくなります。朗読されたテープ、ＣＤもあり　あわせて聴くことでこの詩集の意図するところが本当に分かります。Eric Beddowsのイラストも素晴らしく、手元におき眺めていたい詩集です"ReadAloud"の教材としても良いと思います。

Inspiring me to try and write this form for and with my grandchildren on bad weather days.

This is great for a minibeast topic, esp since New Primary Curriculum wants us to learn poems by heart! Ideal.