Voices on the Wind: Poems for All Seasons

Booth, David

ISBN 10: 0688095550 ISBN 13: 9780688095550

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1990

Synopsis

A poetry anthology featuring works by contemporary poets, Jack Prelutsky, Jane Yolen, and John Ciardi, celebrates the sights and sounds of the four seasons

About this title

About the Author

David Booth is a university professor, author and anthologist of more than thirty books. His lives in Toronto, Ontario.

From School Library Journal

Grade 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, OH
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Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0688095550
• ISBN 13: 9780688095550
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 41
• Illustrator: Lemieux Michele