Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys By Bob Raczka Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-547-24003-9 Ages 4-8 On shelves October 4, 2010 There’s been a lot of discussion lately about getting guys to read. Little guys, that is. The figuring is that if you don’t rope boys into the [...]
Demanding little thing, aren’t I? No sooner has the discussion of what an ALA accredited graphic novel award would entail than I launch into a new discussion. It is Friday, the time when bloggers like myself customarily participate in Poetry Friday (today Live. Love. Explore! has the round-up). What better time then to talk about [...]
Skywriting: Poems to Fly By J. Patrick Lewis Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi Creative Editions $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-56846-203-5 Ages 4-8 On shelves September 1, 2010 We were promised jet packs. That’s what the future was supposed to hold for us. When you think of the future you may imagine things like flying cars or personalized jet [...]
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse By Marilyn Singer Illustrated by Josee Masse Dutton (an imprint of Penguin) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-525-47901-7 Ages 4 and up On shelves now. I like to think that the world of children’s literature has gained a bit more respect in the last decade or so. Folks notice it and [...]
The Owl and the Pussycat By Edward Lear Illustrations by Stephane Jorisch Part of the Visions in Poetry Series. KCP Press (an imprint of Kids Can Press) I’ve no beef with Edward Lear, but I’ve no particular love of him either. Best known for his sweet nonsense poems, Lear often comes off as a slightly [...]
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