Come and Play features 32 photographs of children from everywhere! China, Japan, Greece, Wales, Morocco, Oman, Texas, New York, and many more. Each photo is beautiful, thought provoking, and accompanied by lines of children’s poetry that will amuse young readers, and cause adult readers to reflect and laugh as they see the images through children’s eyes. The photographs span the last fifty years; while the children who wrote about them are a diverse group between the ages of 5 and 11.
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Kindergarten-Grade 5—This book presents simple descriptive poems written by New York City schoolchildren paired with a variety of impressive, often evocative historical and contemporary fine-art photographs done in black and white and color. Rita Dove, who was a poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, writes in the introduction, "I think all of us have moments,/particularly in our childhood,/where we come alive,/maybe for the first time." One young poet says, "Fun feels like happy./Swinging feels like/dangling from the ceiling." A photograph shows two children swinging on ropes in front of a large housing complex in a run-down neighborhood in Northern Ireland in 1978. Two Chilean children dangle upside down from fence posts opposite a poem that is entitled, "Fun Is a Motion." There's a sweet photograph of Pablo Picasso holding his son Claude at the beach. The brief poem declares, "Papa!/I want to kiss the water./Let me go." A couple of quibbles: the individual authorship of the children is not acknowledged; instead they are named in a group photograph. Also, the ages of the writers are not matched with the individual poems. The photographers are identified in an addendum, and a map reveals the locations of the photographs. This is a lovely browsing book, beautifully and spaciously designed, that should appeal to both children and adults.—Kirsten Cutler, Sonoma County Library, CA
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Beautiful, clear photos by top professional photographers show children across the world at play. Each full-page picture is placed opposite a few simple lines of free verse, which are based on “word-riffs” by students in the editor’s New York City grade-school classes. In Baghdad kids are playing tag. In France a boy trips someone in an exuberant martial arts class. A gymnast stands on one hand on the beach in Cornwall, England. Near Agadi, Morocco, mischievous children plan a prank, and a crowd of kids splash in the water in Wonsan City, North Korea. Most settings are in Western Europe, but whether the children are playing chess or ping-pong or watching a waterfall, the images reflect the kids’ individuality and connections, and their anger, hurt, joy, and loneliness—which will spark discussion and more “word-riffs” in readers’ own grade-school classrooms. A map at the back and brief notes on each photo conclude. Grades K-3. --Hazel Rochman
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This review is from: Come and Play: Children of Our World Having Fun (Hardcover)
We chicks have never had any use for "coffee table" books, given that (a) we can't even find our coffee table, due to the heeps of books we have stacked all over the coop, and (b) the idea of books being used primarily for decoration or pretense tends to ruffle our feathers in the worst way. But gosh darnit, if we could find our coffee table and if we did put just one book on it for show, it might very well be this one.
Come and Play is a gorgeous photo collection of children all over the world having a blast doing what kids do best: playing. Chilean kids hanging from monkey bars. Chinese goobers playing ping pong. Norwegian peanuts building an ice sculpture. Accompanying poems written by elementary students in editor/teacher Ayana Lowe's classes in New York City provide the perfect, child-friendly complement to the luminous photographs. We dare you to flip through the pages of this book and not feel like planet earth would be a better place if we could all play a good game of freeze tag together, or paddle around the world's shorelines in styrofoam boxes. And we bet you a pint of whoppers that you (and the kids in your life) can't get through this book without a huge smile on your face. Come on, try it. Come and play. You'll be glad you did!
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This is a marvelous book to browse and reawaken playtime memories!,
This review is from: Come and Play: Children of Our World Having Fun (Hardcover)
This book swirls around the world through time with a mixture of stunning black and white and color photographs of children at play. The prose or "word riffs," contributed by children from across New York City, captures and expresses the moments of play in each photograph. Though separated through time and distance, each child managed to relate to an unknown child or children through the common denominator of play. In Alta Norway, 2001, three children, one clutching a teddy bear, were captured in a photograph seated in a dog sled:
Rosy Cheeks I am the teddy bear. Cozy. In the back. If you make the picture bigger, maybe you'll be able to see the snow dogs pulling. The dogs wear socks to keep their feet warm. The photography was provided by Magnum Photos. In the back of the book there are numbered tiny thumb print sized photos with a brief description of the photograph, the place, date and photographer's name. A worldwide map pinpoints the location of the numbered photographs. The end pages are "autographed" with the distinctive handwriting and doodling of many children. This is a marvelous book to browse and reawaken your own playtime memories or those of your own children. This is a marvelous book that will be enjoyed by all age groups. Play has no boundaries and laughter has no rules.
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