Book Reviews
Slickety Quick: Poems About Sharksby Skila Brown; illus. by Bob KolarPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.3/16 978-0-7636-6543-2 $16.99Brown begins this playful and illuminating collection by taking a bite out of the most infamous of these ocean predators, the great white shark: “you’re no bully, / just a big attention hog. So /...
Argueta, Jorge Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem32 pp. Groundwood 2015. ISBN 978-1-55498-442-8Ebook ISBN 978-1-55498-443-5Illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh. This bilingual cooking poem plays on the multiple meanings of salsa for a musical recipe. As a boy and his family prepare salsa roja, his imagination runs wild, with...
Fogliano, Julie When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons56 pp. Roaring Brook/Porter 2016. ISBN 978-1-59643-852-1Illustrated by Julie Morstad. The book begins and ends on "march 20" with a blue bird on a flowering tree branch (and with the same poem). In between are poems for days throughout the year....
Among a Thousand Firefliesby Helen Frost; photos by Rick LiederPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp.3/16 978-0-7636-7642-1 $15.99 gFrost and Lieder (Step Gently Out; Sweep Up the Sun) collaborate on a third picture book featuring a poem by Frost illustrated with Lieder’s luminous photographs, this time on the subject
of fireflies. Frost’s...
In our May/June 2016 issue, reviewer Sarah Ellis asked Bob Raczka about poetry in unconventional places. Read the starred review of Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems.Sarah Ellis: Have you ever, yourself, written in wet cement or indulged in any other sneaky poetry?Bob Raczka: Sneaky poetry? Hmmm. In my...
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poemsby Bob RaczkaPrimary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 44 pp.3/16 978-1-62672-236-1 $17.99 gGraphic design meets riddle meets visual wordplay in this collection of sturdy and joyful perspectives on the ordinary stuff of the world. Each of the twenty-one offerings consists of a one-word title...
Poetry can rhyme, or not. It can take interesting shapes, or just use straightforward lines. These collections for primary and intermediate readers are great examples of the many forms poetry can take. Look for our What Makes Good Poetry? newsletter in your inbox on April 27, 2016.When Green Becomes Tomatoes:...
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photographby Roxane Orgill;
illus. by Francis VallejoIntermediate Candlewick 54 pp.3/16 978-0-7636-6954-6 $18.99 gOn August 12, 1958, fifty-plus jazz musicians, famous and emerging, gathered together in front of a brownstone in Harlem for a group photo shoot. The resulting photograph has become iconic, a...
Bulion, Leslie Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in VerseGr. K–3 48 pp. PeachtreeIllustrated by Mike Lowery. Various poetic forms take readers on a funny and quirky tour of human anatomy, starting with the stomach and ending with complaints from some often-ignored organs such as the gallbladder. Sidebars contain more...
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