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From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:14:32 -0400 (EDT)
In response to Lisa:
Don't even begin to get me started on oop anthologies such as Larrick's CATS ARE CATS, let alone so many other of her breakthrough books. Up to
now the focus was on individual poets. I could write reams on anthology.
LBH
Visit my site at: www.leebennetthopkins.com
In a message dated 7/21/2012 4:07:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lisav_at_bankstreet.edu writes:
Not a stepchild...I think it is just summer.
I was shocked when I couldn't get a copy of Talking Like the Rain and very
pleased that it returns from Little Brown in a reissue. I do think noisy
librarians make a difference.
Also sometimes weird things happen in reprint- one of my favorite collections 'till all the stars have fallen: a Collection of Poems for Chi ldren" from Viking is now only available as "till all the stars have fallen: Canadian poems for Children" from Kids Can. It contains Courage by Emily H earn, one of my top ten to read aloud to 2nd graders...AND I am afraid to let my
personal copy out of my sight.
How could Cats are Cats selected by Nancy Larrick and illustrated by Ed Young be OP? I get that this is a business but it contains my favorite rendering of "Cats Sleep Fat and Walk Thin"
Somebody besides me must need replacement copies _in hardcover of Judy Sierra's Antarctic Antics- Doesn't this lyrical gift of song belong in anyo nes supporting the "core"? We pair it with our non fiction flightless waterfowl books.
Kristine O'Connor George's Little Dog Poems!!!!!!!! As near perfect as you
can get to introduce poetry to early elementary. Wouldn't knowing that the Amazon price for a hardcover new but op is $500
raise any eyebrows???? Doesn't that say anything about supply and demand?
And although Janet Wong's Once Upon a Tiger is available in an e-edition,
I need books to share, to read aloud. I can't book talk an e-edition, although affordable, not if you don't have a device.
Oh I can feel my blood pressure rising.
Lisa
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM,
_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) _Lbhcove_at_aol.com_ _ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) wrote:
Sadly, I feel the genre hit hardest with out of print titles has been poetry.
Except for a few scattered titles, one cannot find works by David McCord,
Aileen Fisher, Eve Merriam, Myra Cohn Livingston, Lilian Moore - all NCTE
Poetry Award Winners - as well as other brilliant poets' words in print.
It is a sad commentary not to have a book like McCord's ONE AT A TIME, over 400 pages of classic poetry, Livingston's A SONG I SANG TO YOU, a rare book of her selected poems.
And gone are breakthrough books by Janet Wong such as GOOD LUCK GOLD AND
OTHER POEMS bringing us a look at the experiences of a multicultural Asian-American growing up in California.
No one has mentioned poetry thus far in this discussion. Has it become a
stepchild of literature again? Or must light verse be the only thing left to give our children? Can we not bring beauty back into children's lives
with real poetry? Poetry with a capital P?
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Visit my site at:
_www.leebennetthopkins.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/)
Received on Sat 21 Jul 2012 04:14:32 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:14:32 -0400 (EDT)
In response to Lisa:
Don't even begin to get me started on oop anthologies such as Larrick's CATS ARE CATS, let alone so many other of her breakthrough books. Up to
now the focus was on individual poets. I could write reams on anthology.
LBH
Visit my site at: www.leebennetthopkins.com
In a message dated 7/21/2012 4:07:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lisav_at_bankstreet.edu writes:
Not a stepchild...I think it is just summer.
I was shocked when I couldn't get a copy of Talking Like the Rain and very
pleased that it returns from Little Brown in a reissue. I do think noisy
librarians make a difference.
Also sometimes weird things happen in reprint- one of my favorite collections 'till all the stars have fallen: a Collection of Poems for Chi ldren" from Viking is now only available as "till all the stars have fallen: Canadian poems for Children" from Kids Can. It contains Courage by Emily H earn, one of my top ten to read aloud to 2nd graders...AND I am afraid to let my
personal copy out of my sight.
How could Cats are Cats selected by Nancy Larrick and illustrated by Ed Young be OP? I get that this is a business but it contains my favorite rendering of "Cats Sleep Fat and Walk Thin"
Somebody besides me must need replacement copies _in hardcover of Judy Sierra's Antarctic Antics- Doesn't this lyrical gift of song belong in anyo nes supporting the "core"? We pair it with our non fiction flightless waterfowl books.
Kristine O'Connor George's Little Dog Poems!!!!!!!! As near perfect as you
can get to introduce poetry to early elementary. Wouldn't knowing that the Amazon price for a hardcover new but op is $500
raise any eyebrows???? Doesn't that say anything about supply and demand?
And although Janet Wong's Once Upon a Tiger is available in an e-edition,
I need books to share, to read aloud. I can't book talk an e-edition, although affordable, not if you don't have a device.
Oh I can feel my blood pressure rising.
Lisa
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM,
_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) _Lbhcove_at_aol.com_ _ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) wrote:
Sadly, I feel the genre hit hardest with out of print titles has been poetry.
Except for a few scattered titles, one cannot find works by David McCord,
Aileen Fisher, Eve Merriam, Myra Cohn Livingston, Lilian Moore - all NCTE
Poetry Award Winners - as well as other brilliant poets' words in print.
It is a sad commentary not to have a book like McCord's ONE AT A TIME, over 400 pages of classic poetry, Livingston's A SONG I SANG TO YOU, a rare book of her selected poems.
And gone are breakthrough books by Janet Wong such as GOOD LUCK GOLD AND
OTHER POEMS bringing us a look at the experiences of a multicultural Asian-American growing up in California.
No one has mentioned poetry thus far in this discussion. Has it become a
stepchild of literature again? Or must light verse be the only thing left to give our children? Can we not bring beauty back into children's lives
with real poetry? Poetry with a capital P?
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Visit my site at:
_www.leebennetthopkins.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/)
Received on Sat 21 Jul 2012 04:14:32 PM CDT
