Here is a collection of poems that celebrate love. The selections are as varied as the experience of love and are by turns playful, enduring, joyful, and surprising. Well-known poets are represented in addition to newer voices. Delicate watercolors by Jane Dyer present the many moods of love in exquisite detail. Full color.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-Beginning with the translucent, plastic jacket and red fabric bookmark, this title is a keepsake to treasure. Here, love is not just valentines and roses, but also an ode to a canoe and a description of the pleasures of penny candy. The mostly one-page selections are by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, and Jack Prelutsky, among others, and also include old rhymes and folk songs. What really brings these verses alive are the soft and appealing color-pencil illustrations and exquisite book design. There are drawings on each page, some only gentle depictions of a bird on a windowsill or a bowl of apples and pears, while others fill the page and allow the poem to become part of the art. Each illustration shows respect for the words, whether it's the bright-eyed vision of a youngster that accompanies Paul-Jean Toulet's "Black Girl" or the crying he-lizard and she-lizard in Federico Garcia Lorca's "Song." While many of these poems appear in other collections, the unifying theme and enchanting artwork will have young readers asking for this book over and over again.
Kristen Oravec, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Strongsville, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kristen Oravec, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Strongsville, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 5^-8. There probably cannot be too many books of little love poems, so here is one laden with just the right kind to be copied carefully onto paper hearts. They are short and very dear, and though compiler Smith has included a number of his own winsome offerings, others he has chosen cover a wide territory. Shakespeare and Herrick and Anonymous share these candy-colored pages with Karla Kuskin, Jack Prelutsky, Nancy Willard, and Eleanor Farjeon, among others. Brooke Astor's piece is lovely and tart: "Love is an apple, round and firm, / without a blemish or a worm. / Bite into it and you will find / you've found your heart and lost your mind." Flowers and fruit figure mightily: Robert Frost rings changes on "rose is a rose," and a translation from Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's French casts roses upon the wind and waves. Prelutsky is direct: "I love you more than applesauce." Jane Dyer's illustrations, which range in size from postage stamp to full page, from tailpiece to border, in colored pencil, are very nice indeed; however, it's a pity that the childish format and pictures will probably deter teenagers; the appeal here is probably for middle-school and adult audiences. GraceAnne A. DeCandido
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