Have You Heard About Book Spine Poetry?

So, what is book spine poetry? It's a poem that is made by stacking a few or more books together and reading the titles from top to bottom. All the examples we've come across are excellent and so fun! A lot of them tend to be funny, but they can also be more serious in tone. Who says you need a pencil and blank paper to create a poem? The book spine poetry images below were all done by Candlewick Press and you can view them all and more at their Book Spine Poem Galley. The 100 Scope Notes blog also has other fabulous examples.

There are no cats in this book/Just ducks!/Quack!

Hooray for Fish!/Bluefish/33 snowfish/What do fish have to do with anything?

Here's a little poem/Lala salama/Tweedle dee dee/Caterpillar caterpillar/Dance with me