Moving Day - Hardcover

Fletcher, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590783395 ISBN 13: 9781590783399

Publisher: Wordsong, 2006

Synopsis

When his father comes home and announces to everyone that they're moving to Ohio, Fletch has a difficult time coming to terms with the inevitable and unwanted task, in a colorfully illustrated tale with sing-song verse.

About this title

About the Authors

Ralph Fletcher works with teachers and children in schools across the United States, both as an author and a creative writing consultant. He is the author of several poetry collections, including I Am Wings (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family, and Have You Been to the Beach Lately? He lives with his family in Lee, New Hampshire.

Jennifer Emery is the illustrator of three other Boyds Mills Press books, most recently the picture book Animal Alphabed by Margriet Ruurs. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ralph Fletcher works with teachers and children in schools across the United States, both as an author and a creative writing consultant. He is the author of several poetry collections, including I Am Wings (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family, and Have You Been to the Beach Lately? He lives with his family in Lee, New Hampshire.

Jennifer Emery is the illustrator of three other Boyds Mills Press books, most recently the picture book Animal Alphabed by Margriet Ruurs. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ralph Fletcher works with teachers and children in schools across the United States, both as an author and a creative writing consultant. He is the author of several poetry collections, includingI Am Wings (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family,and Have You Been to the Beach Lately? He lives with his family in Lee, New Hampshire.

Jennifer Emery is the illustrator of three other Boyds Mills Press books, most recently the picture bookAnimal Alphabed by Margriet Ruurs. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Reviews

Starred Review. Grade 3-6–In a series of free-verse poems, 12-year-old Fletch talks about his family's move from Massachusetts to Ohio. While many books deal with the experience of being a new kid in town, few focus in such depth on what was left behind. To be inside his skin, through the sadness of packing, giving things away, doing things one last time, and realizing that other family members are hurting is no small thing. When the movers go, The house feels way too big./Hard to believe that we had/enough stuff, enough love,/to fill all these empty rooms. Like shards of glass, Emery's pencil drawings with their watercolor washes mirror the loss and longing in these poems. Fletcher's carefully chosen images–the new house feeling like a stiff new sweatshirt, a glass doorknob reflecting rainbows of light, and two leaves from the old yard mingling in the new leaves–are all right on target.–Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsong
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590783395
• ISBN 13: 9781590783399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Emery Jennifer
• Number of pages: 40