Come with Me [Library Binding]

Naomi Shihab Nye (Author), Dan Yaccarino (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up

A journey can lead east and west, from north to south, up, down, over, under, in between, and next to.

A journey can last a minute, an hour, a year, a month, a lifetime.

A journey might be slow or fast or both. A journey might be shining. One journey could remind you of another one. Are you sliding? Stumbling? Floating?

Maybe it all depends on your point of view.

Where -- and how -- will these sixteen poems take you?

Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Come with me
To the quiet minute between two noisy minutes
It's always waiting ready to welcome us
Tucked under the wing of the day
I'll be there
Where will you be?

A journey with Naomi Shihab Nye and Dan Yaccarino is impossible to resist. Sixteen luminous poems by Nye are accompanied by Yaccarino's stunning mixed-media collages. Nye, poet, novelist, essayist, and anthologist, writes of journeys--internal and external, short and long, slow and fast. Her poetry invites readers to sail away, to rejoice in the journey as well as the destination, and to notice everything along the way. Yaccarino, award-winning artist, and illustrator of Circle Dogs, Deep in the Jungle, An Octopus Followed Me Home, and others, crafts unusual and compelling collages to lose oneself in. His rich use of color, texture, and pattern complements Nye's deeply layered, absorbing poems. This is a collection to cherish. (Ages 4 and older) --Emilie Coulter --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Nye (editor of Salting the Ocean) challenges readers with a range of her own poems, linked thematically as an investigation of journeys to inner spaces as well as literal journeys to real and imagined places. In "Mad," a girl flies to the moon to escape her mother, but when it gets cold at night, slides down the silver thread her mother sends up because "She knows me so well./ She knows I like silver." An airplane pilot in "Full Day" says, "In one minute and fifty seconds/ we're going as far/ as the covered wagon went/ in a full day," and the poet further contrasts the experiences of modern travelers and pioneers. Yaccarino's (Circle Dogs) imaginative, abstracted mixed-media collages tend to distance the audience from the emotions or characters presented in the poems, but wisely leave readers free to interpret Nye's meanings for themselves. Both the poems and the illustrations vary widely in their accessibility. The title poem, for example, lauds the "quiet minute between two noisy minutes/ It's always waiting ready to welcome us/ Tucked under the wing of the day." The more abstruse "Envelope" begins, "The sky sends a letter to the ground." Chock-full of unexpected images, the poems are occasionally marred by cryptic or portentous metaphors (e.g., "Are you hooked to the slightest movement/ of a girl by the Arctic Sea?"). On balance, however, the journey through this volume is a rewarding one. Ages 5-up. (Sept.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Library Binding: 40 pages
• Publisher: Greenwillow (September 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688159478
• ISBN-13: 978-0688159474
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,427,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, anthologist, has been a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation/Library of Congress. Author of more than twenty volumes, her recent books inc

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple things made astonishing..., January 4, 2002

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Carlin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come With Me : Poems for a Journey (Hardcover)

I am a huge fan of Ms. Nye's work. I write poetry for children myself, so I am always looking for new work for kids that is unique (there seems to be an inundation, currently, in the children's market, of mediocre poetry) - I knew I couldn't go wrong with "Come With Me". This is what poetry is all about - taking the simple, the everyday, and turning it into something astounding! In this book, Ms. Nye makes even the smallest of journeys (a word as it travels from mouth to ear)wondrous. How different these trips will now seem to us.
Each poem will leave a "Wow..." in your throat, and a great desire to explore your world, to discover the all the words to describe it. (And Mr. Yaccarino's ilustrations are bold, vivid - a perfect compliment.)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Awesome Journey with these "Poems fo a Journey", November 12, 2003

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R. Angelique Fish (Idaho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come With Me : Poems for a Journey (Hardcover)

Besides Nye's breathtaking poems, the illustrations in Come With Me: Poems for a Journey are amazing. Dan Yaccarina fills Nye's book with spectacular images that amaze the eyes and bedazzle the senses. Yaccarina's use of color, shape, and texture help make Nye's creation a masterpiece.

Nye's poetry is marvelously crafted and stirs the soul. The language is appropiate for young children, ensuring children can appreciate and connect to Nye's beautifully worded poetry.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, September 18, 2011

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magnolia "magnolia" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Come With Me : Poems for a Journey (Hardcover)

For the quality of Nye's writings this was a let down. Possibly because I'm accustomed to her poetry, I won't purchase her children's books. I still consider her an excellent poet.