It’s Weird To Grow A Beard
Written and Illustrated by Neal Fox
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013
60 pages
Children’s Poetry
If you are in the need of a good laugh or a silly story, It’s Weird To Grow a Beard is sure to do the trick. In this book there are 17 different poems that are sure to make you fall in love with their goofy characters. The poems range from a cat trying to sing with a frog stuck in its throat to a sandwich so tall that an astronut could take a nap on it! This book teaches children about friendships, rhyme, and good deeds all while teaching them how to grow the most bizarre beard ever seen!
The illustrations in this book are very simple. They are done mostly on a computer based program, and with ink. The pictures are very bright and bold, with colors like fire engine red and granny smith apple green pouring throughout the book. Neal Fox is the illustrator of all 39 images throughout the book. The illustrations are the focal point on most of the pages with the text wrapping around them. The fun images go right along with his whimsical poems.
I would use the peom about the mile high sandwich in an upper grade math or science measurement lesson. I would have the students figure out the actual distance from earth to the moon then convert it into miles, or simply find it in miles. Then we could figure out how many feet it would be, then inches and so on and so on. I would also use these these poems in a Kindergarten or 1st grade lesson about rhyming words. I would print the peoms off onto separate pieces of paper and have the students highlight the rhyming words. Lastly, I woud use the “It’s Weird To Grow A Beard” peom for a writing activity in a third or fourth grade classroom. I would have the students create a new stanza of the peom with new things coming out from this mans whacky beard, then let them illustrate and share with the class!
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