Book Reviews
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky; illus. by Ruth Chan Intermediate Greenwillow 144 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-301913-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-301915-7 $9.99 Prelutsky fans specifically, and fans of humorous poetry generally, should find just what they’re looking for here: nonsense confidently delivered in lines that...
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes; illus. by various artists Intermediate, Middle School, High School Bloomsbury 144 pp. g 1/21 978-1-68119-944-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68119-945-0 $13.29 Grimes returns to the Harlem Renaissance (One Last Word, rev. 3/17) to showcase the works of some female poets whose...
Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye; illus. by Rafael López Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 256 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-301345-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-301347-6 $9.99 A substantial volume of poems by Nye, the Palestinian American poet and current Young People’s Poet Laureate, is a pleasure on...
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart by Zetta Elliott; illus. by Noa Denmon Primary, Intermediate Farrar 32 pp. g 7/20 978-0-374-30741-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-38863-8 $9.99 In this powerfully lyrical poem, Elliott articulates what resides “deep down inside” of the African American, skateboard-loving, first-person protagonist:...
Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems by Irene Latham; illus. by Amy Huntington Primary, Intermediate Charlesbridge 32 pp. g 4/20 978-1-62354-116-3 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-881-4 $9.99 A nonet, as the first poem explains, is a “Grand / poem / with nine lines / one-syllable / first line builds toward /...
Night Wishes selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins; illus. by Jen Corace Preschool, Primary Eerdmans 40 pp. g 9/20 978-0-8028-5496-4 $18.99 The late Lee Bennett Hopkins gathered these fourteen poems, written by such prominent children’s poets as Joyce Sidman, Nikki Grimes, and Eileen Spinelli, for this picture book of dreamy, comforting...
On the Horizon by Lois Lowry; illus. by Kenard Pak Middle School, High School Houghton 80 pp. g 4/20 978-0-358-12940-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-12938-7 $9.99 In a poetry collection that’s as much structure as style and theme, Lowry considers two events: the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. In the...
In the Woods by David Elliott; illus. by Rob Dunlavey Primary Candlewick 40 pp. g 4/20 978-0-7636-9783-9 $17.99 Once again Elliott (On the Farm, rev. 3/08; In the Sea, rev. 1/12; and others) captures the essence of a habitat and its creatures in poetry that manages to be both pithy...
Cast Away: Poems for Our Time by Naomi Shihab Nye Middle School, High School Greenwillow 159 pp. 2/20 978-0-06-290769-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-290771-4 $10.99 Current Young People’s Poet Laureate Nye finds inspiration in those things we throw away — as well as in the act of throwing things away and...
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