Synopsis "Paw Learning Mazes"
Paw Learning Mazes has maze poems, sonnets, and narrative poems with a lot of action and interaction between people and animals. Action also happens between animals and animals, as this stanza from the poem "Paws Learning in a Jungle" shows: "The mother was the first monkey to smell and to see the tiger that had been hiding in a different tree, but now was moving toward the mother's only child that was too scared to run off into a jungle wild." Different kinds of learning happen in Paw Learning Mazes, including writing, reading, financial literacy, STEM, visual, aural, historic, and multi-modal. People and animals can also learn within their dreams and from each other, as illustrated in "A Cat Learning How to Fly," "Hissing for Free Space," and "A Cat and a Dog Competing to Write Faster." Team learning is seen in multiple poems, such as in "Team Learning for Ants." Interaction between animals and people happens in "Learning with Birds in Roger Williams Park," "A Dog Helping Her Owner to Read Fast," "Pigeons Flying to Financial Literacy," "Cats Grading Essays," "A STEM Dream about an Egret," and many other poems in this book. Paw Learning Mazes has thirty-four mazes, which are parts of eight maze poems. These mazes and eighteen pictures add to the multi-modal elements of this book's poetry.
