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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:32:55 -0400
An interesting recent publication is Sourcebooks's Poetry Speaks to Children. I love the accompanying CD which has many of the poems read by their creators including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, James Berry, Ogden Nash, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes. Sadly, I did not love the illustrations which too often did not, to my mind, do justice to the poems.
On the other hand, I was very comfortable with John Muth's illustrations for the poems in Caroline Kennedy's splendid collection, A Family of Poems.
A wonderful resource spoken poetry is the Poetry Archive at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Monica
On 4/7/06, DAJ <daj9999 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know if it's acceptable to introduce a
> different aspect of poetry books, but I'll insert a
> pet peeve -- the paucity of *audio* versions of most
> poetry collections for children. Picture books,
> beginning readers, even series books are all available
> on tape or CD, but so few poetry collections seem to
> be. Poetry is meant to be heard, and reading poetry
> well is an art -- rendering good recordings all the
> more important in introducing poetry to readers of any
> age.
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:32:55 -0400
An interesting recent publication is Sourcebooks's Poetry Speaks to Children. I love the accompanying CD which has many of the poems read by their creators including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, James Berry, Ogden Nash, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes. Sadly, I did not love the illustrations which too often did not, to my mind, do justice to the poems.
On the other hand, I was very comfortable with John Muth's illustrations for the poems in Caroline Kennedy's splendid collection, A Family of Poems.
A wonderful resource spoken poetry is the Poetry Archive at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Monica
On 4/7/06, DAJ <daj9999 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know if it's acceptable to introduce a
> different aspect of poetry books, but I'll insert a
> pet peeve -- the paucity of *audio* versions of most
> poetry collections for children. Picture books,
> beginning readers, even series books are all available
> on tape or CD, but so few poetry collections seem to
> be. Poetry is meant to be heard, and reading poetry
> well is an art -- rendering good recordings all the
> more important in introducing poetry to readers of any
> age.
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.comReceived on Sat 08 Apr 2006 10:32:55 AM CDT
