Title: A Strange Place to Call Home

Author: Marilyn Singer

Illustrator: Ed Young

Copyright date: 2012

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Summary: This book is a collection of fourteen poems that look at and celebrate a collection of animals that live in very strange places. This books combines science with poetry. The illustrations and poems give life to these strange animals and make us wonder why they exist.

Media for illustration: Collage

Perfect student: This book is perfect for students interested in science, nature, or animals. It would be great to use during a science lesson because it offers and interesting alternative for animals to study.

Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.This book works well with this standard because, as a great introduction to poetry, it can be used to highlight the different type of language used in poetry.