
The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories
Author:
Sylvia Plath
Illustrator:
N/A
Published by:
Faber & Faber
First Published:
1 Jan 1996
Ideal for readers aged
6-9y
My Review
I loved reading 'The Bed Book' to my kids, which is one of the poems in this short compilation of Sylvia Plath's poems for children. It's great for using as a jumping off point for getting children to write their own poems imagining what their own ideal bed would be like; not just a 'Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed', but a bed that can fly or a bed with snacks, or a bed which follows in dinosaur tracks! Plath wrote these poems for her own children and they were never published in her lifetime, but they deserve to be better known!
Heads Up!
If you choose to use these poems in the classroom, you'll want to remember that Sylvia Plath's biography is a tragic one - perhaps this is the reason that her poems for children have been largely and sadly overlooked.