Book Reviews
My Brother’s Bookby Maurice Sendak;
illus. by the authordi Capua/HarperCollins 32 pp.2/13 978-0-06-223489-6 $18.95 gIf, as Wordsworth wrote, “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity,” Sendak’s vision of a Dante-esque search for his beloved brother Jack (1924–1995) is poetry in...
From down in the bottom of the Horn Book boxes comes JonArno Lawson’s newest paperback collection of children’s poetry from Canadian publisher The Porcupine's Quill. Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box (September 2012), a compilation of poems culled from one of Lawson’s earlier projects for falling...
Belt up your kirtles and hold onto your snoods. Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages by Nicholas Orme (Cornell University Press, May 2012) presents a variety of verse from days of yore. After a brief context-setting chapter ("Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages"), Orme provides sections...
All I know is thatThe toad takes some kind of bathAnd lives forever.(Tuck Everlasting)My teacher read itTo show why we should alwaysListen to spiders.(Charlotte’s Web)The illustrationsShowed corks growing in bunchesLike fruit on the trees.(The Story of Ferdinand)A single gold tooth,One of them had, but neitherOf them wore a shirt.(George and...
Animal SnApp, developer Nosy Crow's latest series of preschooler apps, kicks off with Animal SnApp: Farm (October 2012) illustrated by Axel Scheffler.Six alliteratively named barnyard denizens are introduced in a puzzle which asks users to swipe their screen and align the animals' top and bottom halves. Correctly matching the pieces...
We have a patron who is looking for a bookshe read as a child. She can’t rememberthe title. All she knows is,there were lots of strange characterswho were large. They were shaped like flowers or clouds.They had mouths like apple sections, they smiled a lotand wore feathers, which implied something;...
The McElderry Book
of Mother Goose: Revered and Rare Rhymescompiled by Petra Mathers;
illus. by the compilerPrimary, Intermediate McElderry 96 pp.8/12 978-0-689-85605-1 $21.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-5314-2 $12.99Not since Leonard Marcus’s Mother Goose’s Little Misfortunes (rev. 11/90) has there been such a delightfully idiosyncratic selection. Drawn mostly from the canonical Opies (see...
Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dressesby Ron Koertge; illus. by Andrea DezsöHigh School Candlewick 88 pp.7/12 978-0-7636-4406-2 $19.99A much-honored poet and novelist retells, in free verse and from various points of view, twenty-three familiar tales (mostly Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault). With a contemporary sensibility and voice, Koertge pitches directly...
In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, Jennifer Brabander asks The President's Stuck in the Bathtub author Susan Katz about writing presidential poetry. Read the full review of The President's Stuck in the Bathtub here.Jennifer Brabander: Which president was the hardest to write a poem about?Susan Katz:...
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