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Book Review: My Little Book of Nonsensical Poetry by Tasnima Yasmin

A few months back I had read Silhouette and Other Poems by Tasnima Yasmin. It was a great and contemplative collection. It was much suited for regular readers than kids. Well, but there were a few poems that indicated her orientation towards kids. So, now I finally got a book that is totally for kids of around 4 to 10. I personally love children's literature, as it does not burden one with rules and expectations. You like what you get.

Coming to her new book that is entirely for kids, I loved the book and read it over 5 times in last one month. Even I showed the beautiful pictures put with each poem to kids at my home, they were so engrossed and got excited that I had to take a colour printout of the PDF book for their reading, basically fun.

It’s a short 75 page book, with having 24 very short poems. I must say that the illustrations sketched by Sadia Sultana are simply superb and great. Children stared at them whenever they get time to go through the book. Talking about content - it was witty and funny and of course highly entertaining. I loved all poems - but that Drosophila Melanogaster was a new learning for me. Kids will have great time around the book. They will learn and enjoy it...kids over 5 I think can read the book if parents help them with meaning and some vocabulary.

The collection makes up for perfect bed time content for kids. I loved all poems. I will not give which was my closest favourite. A highly entertaining book for kids! I recommend it to millions of parents and children care takers across the world. Having the book in paperback would be real fun thing to do!

Another great book by the same author.

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