POETRY PARADE and CHARADES features fifty-two children’s poems with four popular themes: The Seaside, Nature, Seasons, and Fun poems. These delightful poems for elementary school children to read aloud are followed by over two hundred charade ideas to encourage the creative and theatrical side of children. POETRY PARADE and CHARADES is a great classroom book for teachers, or a fun rainy-day book for parents to keep children entertained the old-fashioned way-without TV or computers!