Weather Poems for All Seasons
Worth buying if: You buy poetry for classroom units on seasons and weather with Hopkins’s name on the cover.
Skip it if: You need a scientific textbook about atmospheric dynamics rather than literary weather poems.
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Summary
An anthology curated and edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Weather Poems for All Seasons collects accessible poems about rain, wind, clouds, snow and sunshine for readers across ages, organized to follow the year’s changing weather and moods.
Why this book now
Hopkins’s seasonal arrangement of weather poems remains a timely classroom and family resource for teaching meteorology, imagery, and calendar rituals.
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- You buy poetry for classroom units on seasons and weather with Hopkins’s name on the cover.
- You want short poems to read aloud about rain, snow, wind and sunshine.
- You need a scientific textbook about atmospheric dynamics rather than literary weather poems.
- You expect a single-author narrative instead of Hopkins’s edited anthology of multiple poets.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780785761402
Worth buying if: You buy poetry for classroom units on seasons and weather with Hopkins’s name on the cover.
Skip it if: You need a scientific textbook about atmospheric dynamics rather than literary weather poems.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
Short, digestible poems make this anthology easy to sample in ten-minute sittings or to use across a week of classroom lessons on weather and seasons.
What stands out here
This 1999 Rebound by Sagebrush edition highlights Lee Bennett Hopkins’s curation and organization by season, emphasizing poems suited for teaching and family reading.
Best way to approach it
Read aloud to children or dip into one seasonal section at a time; use individual poems as prompts for weather journals, science ties, or sensory writing exercises.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780785761402
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