The Rainbow Hand: Poems About Mothers And Children - Hardcover

Wong, Janet S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689821484 ISBN 13: 9780689821486

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry, 1999

Synopsis

Enhanced with colorful artwork, this poetry collection captures the joys, struggles, triumphs, and humor of the special relationship between mother and child.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet S. Wong is the author of more than a dozen picture books and poetry collections. Her work includes Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, and Knock on Wood: Poems About Superstitions, both illustrated by Julie Paschkis, as well as Grump, a Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Book, illustrated by John Wallace. Janet lives with her family in Medina, Washington.

From Booklist:

Gr. 5^-8, younger for reading aloud. These 18 short poems are limpid reflections on mother and child, some from the mother's point of view, some from the child's. All of them hold a kernel of truth that readers of all ages will recognize. A child walking "In Mother's Shadow" delights that she stops to rest "the very moment / my shoes grow / heavy." In another, a child compares plucking her mother's white hairs at her mother's request to plucking daisies. A tiny poem compares mother to an onion: golden, good for you, sometimes surprising in sweetness, or making you cry. A mother breathing slowly in sync with her infant or shielding her baby's eyes with "fingers curved / like a rainbow" are poems lovely in their simplicity. Jennifer Hewitson's illustrations are both sweet and powerful--strong scratchboard lines with pastel washes that make arresting images. The mother and child in "Smother Love" are a sculptural single shape; in the "Rainbow Hand" image, the lines of the mother's and baby's faces and the curves of the mother's hands echo the rhythm of the poem. Children from tots to teens, and beyond, will find their own tangled feelings here. GraceAnne A. DeCandido

About this edition

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0689821484
• ISBN 13: 9780689821486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hewitson Jennifer