The Other Side of the Door: Poems - Hardcover

Moss, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553072595 ISBN 13: 9780553072594

Publisher: Bantam, 1991

Synopsis

This companion volume to The Butterfly Jar, is a wise and whimsical collection of poems to be read aloud, shared, laughed over and savored.

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From the Inside Flap:

on volume to The Butterfly Jar, is a wise and whimsical collection of poems to be read aloud, shared, laughed over and savored.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-4-- A collection of more than 100 poems that explore a child's view of the world. When the poems work, they work well, offering accessible images. Too often, though, Moss, mining the same territory as Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, seems to have skimmed the surface. The words don't form poems, careful creations of an event, sensation, or character. Rather, they seem to stay in their informal, draft state. He writes words in a stream, and uses rhyme schemes that don't quite fit ("Let this poem be a lesson/ For nice parents everywhere:/ If you send your kids to bed,/ They may be . . ./ Digested by a bear.") Demarest's line drawings have genuine verve and humor, extending the comic potential of each poem he illustrates. Still, what lies on the other side of this book's cover is more inanity than poetry. --Kathleen Whalin, formerly at Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0553072595
• ISBN 13: 9780553072594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128