Book Reviews
Recently some friends of mine from Brookline High — Mary Burchenal and Ric Calleja — were interviewed in the Boston Globe about whether poetry is starting to disappear from schools. I don’t really know, but I sure hope not. In lots of classrooms I visit, poetry is certainly a part...
A Pond Full of Inkby Annie M. G. Schmidt; trans.
from the Dutch by David Colmer; illus. by Sieb PosthumaIntermediate Eerdmans 40 pp.3/14 978-0-8028-5433-9 $16.00 gA skinny, long-nosed poet fills his pen from the ink pond in his garden and offers the reader a selection of story poems featuring personalities...
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Maya Angelou. Here are some books by which to help remember the great author and poet.Adoff, Arnold and Andrews, Benny, Editors I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans208 pp. Simon 1997. ISBN 0-689-81241-8 PE ISBN...
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhoodby Carole Boston Weatherford;
illus. by R. Gregory ChristiePrimary Whitman 32 pp.2/14 978-0-8075-7650-2 $16.99“Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill where life is sweet” repeats throughout this rhymed tribute to Harlem’s storied neighborhood, the home of many well-to-do African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Although...
The Poetry App (Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation, 2012) may not be specifically geared toward kids, but I think it has a lot to offer younger users. First and foremost, the app presents over one hundred classic poems from sixteen of the world’s greatest poets — including W. H. Auden, Emily...
National Poetry Month is upon us, and this week’s app review comes from renowned children’s poet Jack Prelutsky. The New Kid on the Block (Wanderful Interactive Storybooks, 2013), an interactive poetry app based on Prelutsky’s book of the same name (HarperCollins, 1984), features eighteen poems, a cast of strangely delightful...
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poemsselected by Paul B. Janeczko;illus. by Melissa SweetPreschool, Primary Candlewick 48 pp.3/14 978-0-7636-4842-8 $16.99Very short people attracted by Sweet’s child-friendly illustrations (and by the large picture book format) are likely to linger to enjoy the thirty-six excellent poems (grouped by season) showcased on...
Caminarby Skila BrownMiddle School Candlewick 200 pp.3/14 978-0-7636-6516-6 $15.99“Forest sounds / all around / but on the ground / the sound / of Me / grew. Echoed. / I heard a path I could not see.” Exquisitely crafted poems are the basis of an unusually fine verse novel set in 1981,...
How I Discovered Poetryby Marilyn Nelson;
illus. by Hadley HooperMiddle School Dial 103 pp.1/14 978-0-8037-3304-6 $16.99 gIn fifty poems (some previously published) Nelson chronicles her formative years during the 1950s, from age four to thirteen, against the backdrop of the cold war and stirrings of the civil rights movement and...
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