Bookspeak! : poems about books
Record details
- ISBN: 0547223005
- ISBN: 9780547223001 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The illustrations in this book were done in mixed media"--Verso title-page. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Calling all readers -- Skywriting -- If a tree falls -- A character pleads for his life -- Top secret -- On the shelf and under the bed -- Index -- Paper sky -- Cliffhanger -- The sky is falling -- Written in snow -- Book plate -- Hydrophobiac -- I've got this covered -- Picture this -- Conflicted -- The middle's lament: a poem for three voices -- This is the book -- Lights out at the bookstore -- Vacation time! -- The end. |
Awards Note: | Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year (2012); National Council of Teachers of English--NCTE--Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts (2012). |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | American poetry |
Genre: | Children's poetry, American. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | J 811.6 Sala (Text) | 33126016967121 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | J 811.6 Sala (Text) | 33126018342299 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2011 December
Gr 3â5âSome of these 21 poems are written in rhyme and meter, while others are free verse. They vary in length from a few to several stanzas, and all are well crafted and clever, covering a variety of aspects of books and reading. Salas includes poems about an index, a cover, cliff-hangers, and falling asleep while reading. The poems are, by turns, philosophical, humorous, and even instructional. Typeset is creative, and the titles appear in a variety of artistic font styles and colors. Whimsical, mixed-media illustrations grace every page. Bisaillon skillfully incorporates the printed poems into the artwork so that the words and images have a single, unified, visual effect. This is an appealing offering that will be especially popular with librarians. For a collection of "book" poems by a variety of authors, Lee Bennett Hopkins's I Am the Book (Holiday House, 2011) is also a good choice.âDonna Cardon, Provo City Library, UT
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