As she matures, a girl faces issues and events that are confusing, worrisome, and challenging. Who better than her mother to offer advice and comfort? In seventeen pairs of sensitive verse, poets Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple - real-life mother and daughter - exchange their thoughts on a variety of adolescent issues great and small.
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From Publishers Weekly
Mother-daughter team Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple use an inventive (and humorous) format in Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People, illus. by Gil Ashby. Daughter addresses mother in a poem on the left, and mother addresses daughter on the right, debating issues such as homework, weight, sports and romantic crushes.
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From School Library Journal
Gr 5-8-Seventeen pairs of poems define the push and pull between preteen and parent as the younger anguishes and matures and the older advises and nourishes. Each two-page set offers a poem that Stemple has written to her mother in a daughter's voice on such sources of adolescent angst as homework, self-consciousness, bedtime, self-assurance, or insufficient allowance. Yolen's motherly response on the facing page is firm, but understanding; critical, but complimentary; advisory, but empathetic. Pencil sketches show girls of various cultures, accompanied on some pages by the sort of amateurish doodles (and the inherent smeary, cluttered look) that might be found in a school notebook. Girls will feel a kinship with the younger poet's words and feelings and will welcome the mother's insights and loving discipline.-Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Active in several organizations, Yolen has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, the Western Massachusetts Illustrators Guild, and the Bay State Writers Guild. For twenty years, she ran a monthly writer's workshop for new children's book authors. In 1980, when Yolen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the citation recognized that "throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration--folk culture." Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes Yolen. "From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world." Folklore, she believes, is the universal human language, a language that children instinctively feel in their hearts. All of Yolen's stories and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding. Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille. With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Mother and daughter,
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This review is from: Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People (Hardcover)
I borrowed this book from our local library for my 9-year old daughter because she likes to read poetry. She loved it. Then we read it together and I loved it. She now realizes that she is not the only one that gets grief from her mother about cleaning her room, having plenty to do when she's "bored", practicing the piano etc. I am going to buy this book for her and as a birthday gift for her friend. Every mother and daughter should own it.
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By Pam (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People (Hardcover)
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter : Poems for Young People by Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple is beautiful book that all mothers and daughters should read. The relationship between mother and daughter can be compared to the caterpillar and butterfly. Sometimes is can be ugly, but it has the potential to blossom into something beautiful. This book would make a great gift for Mother's Day, birth of a baby, or a graduation. This book will move you to tears as you remember your own journey through adolesence and learning to be friends with the best friend you'll could ever have.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter,
This review is from: Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People (Hardcover)
The book was much shorter than I had expected. Also, I was looking for a book with responsive readings between the mother and daughter and that is not what this book is. Somewhat disappointed in the purchase.
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