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Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction
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Gr. 3-5. Like Fletcher's I Am Wings (1994) and Relatively Speaking (1999), this mock-autobiographical collection unpretentiously demonstrates how poems can transform the daily experiences of a child's life into dead-on truth bombs. "You can't write a poem / about a squished squirrel / my teacher insisted, / but I don't think that's true," observes Fletcher's endearing (and most likely male) narrator, who pens 27 primarily free-verse poems on many topics, from roadkill and Venus's-flytraps to weightier subjects such as a grandmother's senility. All subvert the notion that poetry requires lofty themes and rarified language; many satirize the dry, technical manner in which the genre is often taught, involving rote memorization of forms (which the narrator imagines getting munched by a poem-gobbler, whose ingestion of haiku, cinquains, and sonnets require "some onomatopoeia / to cure a case of diarrhea"). Some readers may wish for flashier visuals than the understated, black-and-white drawings and photos, but others will find inspiration here to declare, like Fletcher's confident young writer, that "poems are not extinct." Jennifer Mattson
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