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Synopsis
A fresh collection of twenty-eight poems about a girl living in the country.
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About the Author
Kristine O'Connell George is an acclaimed poet who conducts poetry workshops for children and teachers. She is the author of several books of poetry for young people, including Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems and The Great Frog Race, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. She lives with her family in Southern California. Visit her online at kristinegeorge.com and on Twitter at @Kristine_George.
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Vermont, Kate Kiesler began painting at an early age. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and now paints and illustrates full-time. Kate paints with oils, and her rich style has been highly praised. Kate Kiesler has illustrated numerous picture books, including The Great Frog Race and Other Poems. She lives in Frisco, Colorado.
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Gr. 4^-6, younger for reading aloud. Outdoors at night under a full moon, children gather to watch captured frogs race. A girl sniffs the air in September: "It smells / Spicy. Sharp. / Like freshly sharpened pencils." The words capture children playing out their lives: throwing water balloons, hovering over pollywogs in a shallow pond, listening to Canada geese flying overhead. Both the picture-book format and the poetry in this collection are wonderfully enticing. George's astute imagery pairs beautifully with Kiesler's rich, warm-toned oil paintings to impart a strong sense of the pleasures of rural landscape--wide-plowed furrows, "straight as fork tines that / stretch to the horizon"; a weeping willow that sighs, droops, sags, and finally weeps "piles of tears for me to rake." Unifying the collection is the story of a young girl. Sometimes she is like every young child; at other times she exposes fragile, very personal feelings, as when she stands in front of her music class: "My heart hears every note, / yet my song is locked / inside my throat." And woven through all is the strong affirmation that being different from everybody else is something special indeed. Karen Morgan
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- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0618604782
- ISBN 13 9780618604784
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages48
- IllustratorKiesler Kate
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