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From: Elliott BatTzedek <ebattzedek>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:53:28 -0400
In addition to the stack of adult political issues nonfiction always waiting by my bed, I've also been going through the piles of picture books for review that stacked up last year while I was busy writing a pre-k curriculum. One lovely gem that seems to have escaped notice on lists is the 2004 reissue of Elinor Lander Horwitz's "When the Sky is Like Lace," illustrated by Barbara Cooney and first published in 1975. The illustrations are stunning, of course, but the language is also just gorgeous.
From the beginning: On a bimulous night, the sky is like lace. Do you know how it looks when it's bimulous and the sky is like lace? It doesn't happen often, but when it does -- KA-BOOM! -- and everything is strange-splendid and plum-purple.
And later in the story: Because on bimulous nights when the sky is like lace, the trees eucalyptus back and forth, forth and back, swishing and swaying, swaying and swishing -- in the fern?ep grove at the midnight end of the garden.
When I first read it, I made the rounds of my coworkers, reading it aloud several times. This set all of us on a search for the exact definition and derivation of bimulous (a fun adventure I'll leave up to any of you who might be interested).
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
Received on Tue 24 May 2005 10:53:28 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:53:28 -0400
In addition to the stack of adult political issues nonfiction always waiting by my bed, I've also been going through the piles of picture books for review that stacked up last year while I was busy writing a pre-k curriculum. One lovely gem that seems to have escaped notice on lists is the 2004 reissue of Elinor Lander Horwitz's "When the Sky is Like Lace," illustrated by Barbara Cooney and first published in 1975. The illustrations are stunning, of course, but the language is also just gorgeous.
From the beginning: On a bimulous night, the sky is like lace. Do you know how it looks when it's bimulous and the sky is like lace? It doesn't happen often, but when it does -- KA-BOOM! -- and everything is strange-splendid and plum-purple.
And later in the story: Because on bimulous nights when the sky is like lace, the trees eucalyptus back and forth, forth and back, swishing and swaying, swaying and swishing -- in the fern?ep grove at the midnight end of the garden.
When I first read it, I made the rounds of my coworkers, reading it aloud several times. This set all of us on a search for the exact definition and derivation of bimulous (a fun adventure I'll leave up to any of you who might be interested).
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
Received on Tue 24 May 2005 10:53:28 AM CDT
