From the joy of stomping through thick mud to the luxury of soaking in a bathtub full of bubbles, vivid poems and delicious paintings capture the wonders that children experience every day through their five senses.
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Arnold Adoff manages to climb inside a child's mind, body, and soul to write these poems of seeing, feeling, tasting, hearing, smelling... being. He loosely follows the seasons of the year with verses about the hottest day of the month so far, raking and rolling in fall leaves, the itchiness of a wet wool hat in winter, and a "Spring Saturday Morning":
Legs Into Over Alls,
Feet Into Socks,
Toes Finding
Their Places:
I Pull My Boots On
And Buckle My Rain
Slicker All The Way.
I Am Ready With My
Black Rubber Hat.
I Do A Monster Walk
Outside
Into The Mud.
Lisa Desimini's mixed-media collages use photographs, paintings, paper, and computer graphics to create exquisitely original artwork that perfectly engages with Adoff's verses. These two collaborated on another wonderful poetry collection called Love Letters. No need to be a poetry buff to enjoy either one of these special books. Go ahead--touch the poems! (Ages 4 and older) --Emilie Coulter
From Publishers Weekly
Adoff and Desimini (Love Letters) salute the senses, especially touch, in this well-balanced collaboration. Written in Adoff's familiar "shaped speech" style, the initial title poem depicts a girl caressing her face: "As I Look At The O p e n Book/ On My Table:/ Each Poem/ A Gentle/ Touch." The poems describe physical sensations ("I/ .../ Rub/ The Palm/ Of My Hand/ On/ Daddy's/ Stubble/ C h e e k") and sensuous contact ("F u z z/ Of Peach Skin/ Round/ R u b s/ My Upper Lip Just/ B e f o r e/ First/ Bite"). Although the language is sometimes repetitious, the accumulation of detail evokes the sensation of the described activity. The shaped speech, however, seems random rather than integral to the rhythm of the poems. Desimini's striking mixed-media collages, on the other hand, make consistently pertinent use of off-center techniques, their ability to startle an effective contrast to Adoff's low-key approach. The girl of the title poem, for example, is shown in a photo superimposed onto the page of an open book, which in turn is shown held by a pair of hands placed where the reader's own hands would be, creating a book-within-a-book telescoping conceit. Illustrations are turned sideways, a reflection of a child's face is tipped into a drop of water, outsize images confound viewers' sense of scale. All in all, a tactile and visual treat. Ages 4-up. (Apr.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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What will you touch during the year?,
This review is from: Touch The Poem (Hardcover)
A year of touches - mud, sand, water, leaves, and ice among them - are the subjects of this new collection of free verse from the author of Love Letters and Chocolate Dreams. Lisa Desimin's photographs and computer generated paintings accompanying the verses are outstanding in clarity and ability to match the mood of each poem. Adoff again plays with the text stretching words out and arranging them in unique patterns across the page. Recommended for aspiring poets or poetry browsers.
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- Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller on page 34, and Back Matter
- Booktalks, Bookwalks, and Read-Alouds: Promoting the Best New Children's Literature Across the Elementary Curriculum by Rosanne Blass on page 18
- Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature: Making the Most of Read-Alouds Across the Day by Lester L. Laminack on page 120
- Tiger Lilies, Toadstools, and Thunderbolts: Engaging in K-8 Students with Poetry by Iris M. Tiedt on page 141
- Literature for Lively Lessons by Sheila Edwards on page 66
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