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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:00:40 -0500
Kate McClelland wrote:
"I do not feel that I qualify as an expert in evaluating poetry, but I am an expert in the feelings that poets can evoke within me."
To me, she has captured the heart of what we want to encourage in chidren in their interactions with poetry: "How does this make you feel?" Or even, "What does this make you think of?" By offering poetry from the earliest age, and continuing to offer it throughout childhood and young adulthood, I think we can both demystify poetry, and also underscore the power and magic and mystery of language that is never more potent than in a moment when a reader and poem connect.
I want to put in plug for Naomi Nye's newest collection A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, which ends with the most heartening lines in its final poem:
"My mind / is always / open. / I don't think / there's even / a door."
Kristine O'Connell George's Hummingbird Nest has already been mentioned. I also love these poems, and I find Barry Moser's illustrations a perfect accompaniment-?licate and subtle, and alwasy making us aware of the passage of time, and how much happened in less than two short months that the poems chronicle.
I love the picture book adaption of Ntozake Shange's "Mood Indigo" in ellington was not a street. I know there are varied (and sometimes heated!) opinions on whether or not it is a travesty to illustrate poetry, but I think Kadir Nelson's paintings are not only superb in and of themselves, but are a superb way to bring this poem to an even younger group of readers.
Nikki' Grimes's What Is Goodbye, which explores a grieving family, superbly creates two distinct voices in siblings Jerilyn and Jesse by using distinctive forms and styles for each.
Kate Hovey captures the drama of the Trojan War in poems that pay homage to classical works by begnning with a brief epigraph from sources such as Virgil, Ovid and others.
Those are just a few of the many books I've especially enjoyed in recent months.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608&2?03 fax: 608&2I33 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:00:40 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:00:40 -0500
Kate McClelland wrote:
"I do not feel that I qualify as an expert in evaluating poetry, but I am an expert in the feelings that poets can evoke within me."
To me, she has captured the heart of what we want to encourage in chidren in their interactions with poetry: "How does this make you feel?" Or even, "What does this make you think of?" By offering poetry from the earliest age, and continuing to offer it throughout childhood and young adulthood, I think we can both demystify poetry, and also underscore the power and magic and mystery of language that is never more potent than in a moment when a reader and poem connect.
I want to put in plug for Naomi Nye's newest collection A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, which ends with the most heartening lines in its final poem:
"My mind / is always / open. / I don't think / there's even / a door."
Kristine O'Connell George's Hummingbird Nest has already been mentioned. I also love these poems, and I find Barry Moser's illustrations a perfect accompaniment-?licate and subtle, and alwasy making us aware of the passage of time, and how much happened in less than two short months that the poems chronicle.
I love the picture book adaption of Ntozake Shange's "Mood Indigo" in ellington was not a street. I know there are varied (and sometimes heated!) opinions on whether or not it is a travesty to illustrate poetry, but I think Kadir Nelson's paintings are not only superb in and of themselves, but are a superb way to bring this poem to an even younger group of readers.
Nikki' Grimes's What Is Goodbye, which explores a grieving family, superbly creates two distinct voices in siblings Jerilyn and Jesse by using distinctive forms and styles for each.
Kate Hovey captures the drama of the Trojan War in poems that pay homage to classical works by begnning with a brief epigraph from sources such as Virgil, Ovid and others.
Those are just a few of the many books I've especially enjoyed in recent months.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608&2?03 fax: 608&2I33 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:00:40 AM CDT
