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From a backseat kiss to passing the driving test, this collection of thirty-six poems capture the diverse joys and dramas of owning and operating a car.
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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.
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Gr. 7^-up. "Forget kindergarten, / sharing. / Everything you need to know / you learn right here / behind the wheel." As in her previous poetry collections, Wong uses simple, personal free verse to explore the spaces between family and self, this time through distilled moments in the car and on the road. In one poem, a grandchild connects a car crash with the financial crash that took her grandmother's savings; in another, a daughter criticizes her father for picking up a hitchhiker and, in her sullenness, realizes she looks "not at all like my father's daughter." The poems are mostly intimate, first-person monologues, but there are some narrated vignettes and very funny radical suggestions for reshaping the rules of the road (in "Insurance for Teenage Drivers: A New Plan," the speaker suggests that, as punishment for violations, young offenders should: "Direct traffic, / head shaved bald . . . flanked by parents / dressed in pajamas"). Wong's brief, clear lines will be accessible even to the most reluctant poetry readers, and readers of all ages will be moved by the intersection of poignancy and humor as she describes the thrilling freedom of the car and an emerging adult's awareness that, although she's traveled, her road still leads to home. Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherMargaret K. McElderry
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0689825315
- ISBN 13 9780689825316
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages48
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