"The Sun"

Don't you think the sun is bright? I wonder where it goes at night? Does it sleep or does it hide? Or is the moon its other side?
Does it hide behind the hills? Late at night as outside chills? Do you think it needs to rest? From all that warming it does best?

Could it even have a home? Maybe in London or even in Rome? Or does it just float around? Moving slowly from town to town?
Yes, I think it must do that! After all the earth's not flat. So the sun goes round and round Spreading sunshine on the ground! 2002 Gareth Lancaster

My Parents Sent Me To the Store

My parents sent me to the store to buy a loaf of bread. I came home with a puppy and a parakeet instead. I came home with a guinea pig, a hamster and a cat, a turtle and a lizard and a friendly little rat. I also had a monkey and a mongoose and a mouse. Those animals went crazy when I brought them in the house. They barked and yelped and hissed and chased my family out the door. My parents never let me do the shopping anymore. --Kenn Nesbitt

Characteristics
Most children preferred narrative Children preferred poems that had pronounced sound patterns of all kinds, but especially enjoyed poems that rhymed. Children preferred poems with regular, distinctive rhythm. Children liked humorous poems, poems about animals, and poems about enjoyable familiar experiences.