Locomotion Audiobook

" I used this book as an interactive read aloud with my sixth grade literacy students. I loved it, they loved it. Worked so well with our character unit. Jacqueline Woodson does a great job covering sensitive topics like diversity, death, bullying, adoption, foster care...in a way students can understand and discuss. I look forward to reading the sequel. "

" I really liked this book! It was very different and heart worming! I thought Locomotion was a very sweet thoughtful young man. I definitely recommend this book to anybody who likes heart worming poetry!(: "

" Not sure how jaqueline woodson manages to put out so much heartbreaking material but it happened again. and it's a book of poems that somehow manages to tow the line just above schmaltzy and straight to the heart. "

" Woodson is a gifted author of children's books. This is a poetry book and like her prose novels Woodson creates characters that you care about long after the book is closed. She is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, a two-time National Book Award Finalist and winner of a Coretta Scott King Award. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this amazing author. Now starting the followup to "Locomotion" - "Peace, Locomotion." Here's a little taste - "Imagine peace. I think it's blue because that's my favorite color. I think it's soft like flannel sheets in the wintertime. I think Peace is full - like a stomach after a real good dinner - beef stew and corn bread or shrimp fried rice and egg rolls..................I think if you imagine it, like that Beatles guy used to sing about? Then it can happen. Yeah, I think Peace Can Happen." "

" i thought it was real emotional it talks alot about his sister and mom. it really shows that he cares about his family. i recommend it to people who like emotional and poem books. "

" Good poetry book to read to innercity children. It is very easy for children to relate to the main character. Lonnie Collins Motion has a hard life, but is excellent at writing authentic poetry. This helped my class write about their own lives and problems that they face. "

" Locomotion was a ok book. Some parts were sad some were funny. The part I did not like was that all the poems. I lnow it was a poem book some poems were weriod. Another then that it was good. =D "

" I loved this book and would recommend to anyone trying to break the sterotype of poetry. The story of Lonnie losing his parents at a very young age and how he overcomes that kept me entertained. "

" This is a great chapter book filled with poems. This book was so heart warming. It made me cry. I loved it. This was one of my better reads assigned. This book is suited for children ages 10 - 16. Great book! "

" Locomotion was a fantastic book! It was very powerful, plus I liked that it was written in poems. Lonnie has been through a lot after his parents died in a fire. Now only his sister Lilly and hime survived they were put into homes with other adults. I'm very satisfied with the ending. "

" Wow, I really liked this book! "

" I liked this book ok, but I've read so many books like it that it didn't seem as original or moving as it might have. Overall, it was a quick, interesting read. "

" A wonderful form of self expression through poetry. Locomotion is self expression of the thoughts, feelings and life experiences of eleven-year-old Lonnie through poetry. This is a book that can be introduced to students who are reluctant writers or who need a form of self expression. "

" This book was about foster/adoption (somehow I got a whole bunch of these types of books 2 years ago)...it is a very interesting story...but it was all written in poetry form "

" A story told cleverly in verse. The more you read the more you want to read. The author tells us about Lonnie's tragic life through his eyes and words. We feel his love for his sister and gradual affection for his guardian, Miss Edna. "

" I think it at great poems and was a book with lots of different feelings. "

" It was an ok book but the story didn't have a very good ending. I loved the kid and how he went from depressed to happy but it didn't really. . . 'end'. "

" This is really poetry. And I found it very powerful. It was a little sparse. I would have like fifty more pages. But the images and stories Woodson tells are powerful. "

" Read this a couple of years ago...LOVED it. Loved the poetry of it, the poignancy of the boy's voice. "