In their second collection of poems and paintings, the award-winning author-illustrator team of Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrates the seasons through the eyes of a young African-American boy. With a poem for each month, the poems and pictures in this volume will warm the heart and touch the soul. Full color.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Like food stored away for winter, this rich harvest of poems contains enough sustenance to last throughout the year. A companion volume to Thomas and Cooper's Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, the 12 poems included are somewhat arbitrarily linked to various months of the year but unified by a single narrator. "August Cowboy" tells of a boy's Buffalo Soldier grandfather; "April Medicine" is about how the boy is comforted by his mother's touch because she knows "the temperature of [his] head" and the "weather of [his] heart." Each poem and paiting is infused with the warmth and strength of the boy's family and his home where, as he says, "We drink love for breakfast." Cooper's predominantly yellow and brown palette reflects the glow of a hearth fire, where the father's "bricklayer hands/ red and muddy with mortar" smell like "the fireplace/ He's built and stoked with wood" to warm the family's "chilly bones." Thomas's simple but touching language describes a hopeful world where school, church, and family ties are celebrated, where "people are more important than things," and where love is as wonderful as gingerbread, warm and spicy from the oven. All ages.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3?The author and illustrator of Brown Honey in Broomstick Tea (HarperCollins, 1993) again have teamed up to create a collection of verses and paintings. This one celebrates the passage of a year within the circle of an extended African American family. From Grandma's cozy kitchen in January to the sparkle and noise of a July Fourth commemoration to the appreciation in December of a father's strength and love, a young boy thrives on the nurturing of his caring relatives. Over the months, he experiences a mother's healing hands, father's protection in a storm (and in life), sister's reminder that she's her own boss, Grandpa's gift of his heritage, and everyone's loving encouragement on his first day of school. Together they read, worship, and play in both word and luminous pictures. As the boy himself realizes in a Thanksgiving prayer, God has blessed him with this family. Readers will agree.?Meg Stackpole, Rye Free Reading Room, NY
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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