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Review of No More Poems!: A Book in Verse That Just Gets Worse
No More Poems!: A Book in Verse That Just Gets Worseby Rhett Miller; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary, Intermediate Tingley/Little, Brown 48 pp.3/19 978-0-316-41652-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-41649-8 $9.99Miller, lead singer/songwriter of the alt-country band Old 97’s, knows how to grab an audience’s attention. This collection of twenty-three kid-pleasing poems opens with...
For Paul Janeczko
Naomi Shihab Nye, helped out by Lynne Rae Perkins, remembers the recently departed Paul B. Janeczko. He will be missed. For Paul Janeczko, who Changed the WorldWe were set up to do a reading together in Portland, Maine once — HIS TOWN —and the only attendee was a dog.As we waited...
Review of They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poemsby David BowlesMiddle School Cinco Puntos 109 pp. g9/18 978-1-947627-06-2 $18.95Paper ed. 978-1-947627-07-9 $12.95The dynamic complexity of the Rio Grande borderlands pulses in the poetry of twelve-year-old Güero — a nickname commonly given to light-skinned, freckled Mexican and Chicano boys. Inspired by the...
Make a Circle
Children’s books are better today than they were when my own children were small. At least, I think they are. It’s possible that good books existed in the late- to mid-1970s and 1980s, and I lacked the leisure to find them on the shelves. Going to the library in those...
Review of The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems
The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poemsby Calef Brown; illus. by the authorPrimary Carolrhoda 32 pp.8/18 978-1-5124-2661-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-2468-2 $17.99Brown (Soup for Breakfast, rev. 3/09; Hypnotize a Tiger, rev. 3/15) gives his quirky, funny verse and art a spooky twist here with seventeen poems celebrating ghosts, witches, demons, and even...
Poetry with pictures
These illustrated poetry collections touch on a variety of topics — from the everyday to the prehistoric to the supernatural — but all provide inviting ways to introduce primary readers to poetry.In Did You Hear What I Heard?: Poems About School, thirty-five poems follow the months of the school year,...
Review of Between the Lines audiobook
Between the Linesby Nikki Grimes; read by Cherise Boothe, Lori Gardner, Almarie Guerra, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Edward Lopez, Ruffin Prentiss, and James ShippyMiddle School, High School Recorded BooksRev. 3/18 4 CDs 4 hrs. 978-1-5019-6261-5 $13.99Nine high school students take turns giving readers their impressions of a poetry class they’re all...
Review of Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All
Friends and Foes: Poems About Us Allby Douglas Florian; illus. by the authorPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.7/18 978-1-4424-8795-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8796-3 $10.99This collection of twenty-five poems teases out many of friendship’s fundamentals, as well as its more nuanced complexities. Along with jealousy, bullies, and new and imaginary friends, the punchy...
Review of Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color
Vivid: Poems & Notes About Colorby Julie Paschkis; illus. by the authorPrimary Godwin/Holt 32 pp.7/18 978-1-250-12229-2 $17.99Fourteen color poems pair with vibrant gouache illustrations, beginning with the color yellow: “Loudly, rowdy / daffodils yell hello. / Hot yellow.” The poem, set inside a bright sun, blazes above butterflies, birds, flowers, and a...
Review of Rebound
Reboundby Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dawud AnyabwileIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 414 pp.4/18 978-0-544-86813-7 $16.99In this prequel to Alexander’s Newbery Medal–winning The Crossover (rev. 5/14), it’s the summer of 1988, and twelve-year-old Charlie Bell would rather roller-skate with his two best friends or escape into the pages of his beloved Fantastic...
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