Poetry, Poetry - Assorted Topics, Children - Nature, Anthologies, General & Miscellaneous Poetry, English, Irish, & Scottish Poetry
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Overview
Plant the seeds of spring with Else Minarik or light a bonfire of autumn leaves with Robert Louis Stevenson. Picnic in a summer meadow of follow footprints through the snow, as warmly imaginative paintings illuminate a bouquet of poems from such contemporary poets as John Ciardi, Jane Yolen, and Jack Prelutsky, and from such classic authors as Beatrix Potter, Christina Rossetti, and William Blake.David Booth has compiled a collection that is as lively as the natural wonders it celebrates. Here is a book for young and old to return to season after season, year after year.
An anthology of poems celebrating the sights and sounds of the four seasons.
Synopsis
Plant the seeds of spring with Else Minarik or light a bonfire of autumn leaves with Robert Louis Stevenson. Picnic in a summer meadow of follow footprints through the snow, as warmly imaginative paintings illuminate a bouquet of poems from such contemporary poets as John Ciardi, Jane Yolen, and Jack Prelutsky, and from such classic authors as Beatrix Potter, Christina Rossetti, and William Blake.David Booth has compiled a collection that is as lively as the natural wonders it celebrates. Here is a book for young and old to return to season after season, year after year.
An anthology of poems celebrating the sights and sounds of the four seasons.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 2 Up-- Twenty-eight poems for children--by both classical and contemporary poets--are arranged by season in this uneven volume. Some of the verses and their writers are unfamiliar; those who are well known are readily available in other collections. As a whole, the volume is visually appealing, but closer inspection reveals a hodgepodge of both style and presentation. Lemieux's acrylic paintings range in intensity from misty pale to dazzlingly bright, in size from full double-page spreads to small vignettes. They vary in style from lovely naturescapes to cute, anthropomorphic animals that are dear, humorous, lovely, or bizarre. Many of the paintings are not representative of the poems they illustrate. There are a number of attractive, well-written books of seasonal poetry currently in print. Myra Cohn Livingston's A Circle of Seasons (Holiday, 1982), Jane Yolen's Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons (HBJ, 1986), and Lillian Moore's Something New Begins (Atheneum, 1982) are better choices. --Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OHBook Details
Published
February 15, 1996
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
42
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780831734626