For All Creatures by Glenda Millard

For All Creatures written by Glenda Millard and illustrated by Rebecca Cool

For All creatures written by Glenda Millard is a children’s literature book about all creatures big or small. The author sends the reader on a tongue twisting tale of describing words to describe animals of all sorts.

Instead of naming each creature, Glenda describes a different creature and uses imagery, adjectives and adjectival phrases to describe the creatures “For weavers and wisps. For silk spinners and spiderlings, lace and loveliness and for webs, we are thankful” (Millard, 2012).  Millard uses similes and metaphors to describe her creatures to create a vivid and life-like image in the readers mind. Each paragraph is a repetition from the previous with a familiar verse taking on a similar structure. Each paragraph ends with ‘we are thankful’ and begins with ‘for’.

Young readers will be introduced to new vocabulary within ‘For all Creatures’ and is a good engaging activity to introduce adjectives and adjectival phrases to children or for creative and expressive writing. This book offers a reminder to be thankful and appreciative towards creatures, big or small.