Here are a few Valentine "special" readings for kids. The book by Eve Bunting entitled The Valentine Bears is kind of a classic and one I read every year as an elementary teacher.
A newer book for me is the one entitled "Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink" by Diane de Groat. How would you like to receive the following Valentine poem:
" Violets are blue, roses are pink. Your feet are big, and they really stink". Or how would you like to recieve this one: "Roses are red, you wet your bed. I think that you have rocks in your head."
These are two poems Gilbert wrote as part of a class assignment to write "nice" poems to each of his classmates. Gilbert didn't have any problem with this assignment until he came to the two classmates he didn't like- as you can tell by the poems he wrote. Now what makes this story more significant is that he didn't sign his own name to the two nasty poems. You have to read the story to find out whose names he did use and the consequences that followed. Hopefully Valentine's Day for you will have as "loving" a conclusion as does this book.
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