This highly praised collection celebrates winter through the voices of some of the world's greatest poets. Twenty-five poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others are accompanied by glistening acrylic paintings of snowy landscapes.
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From Publishers Weekly
This seasonal collection includes work by Rachel Field, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg and Emily Dickinson. "Like sun glinting on snow, this volume is dazzling," said PW in a starred review. Ages 7-11. (Nov.)
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Gr. 3-6, younger for reading aloud. Beautifully designed and illustrated in a picture book format, this short anthology of poetry celebrates winter itself, not the holidays that fall within the season. The selection is eclectic, ranging from ancient Japanese verse through Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens, Richard Wright, Ogden Nash, and David Kherdian. While much of the poetry was not originally written for children and some of it is excerpted from longer works, the clarity of concrete images and the sounds of the words make the verse accessible to young people, particularly when it is read aloud. The background of each double-page spread is the same country road, fields, and farm seen in a variety of weathers and times of day and night. A white box is centered on each page, and within these boxes appear the poems and illustrations related to individual poems. Hyman's evocative line-and-watercolor artwork depicts the quiet beauty of winter landscapes and interior scenes as well as the child's experience of winter. Carolyn Phelan
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an evocative combination of text and art,
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If you know the illustrations of Trina Schart Hyman, you won't be surprised by the utter beauty of this book -- but what makes it really stand out is the quality of the poetry selections in tandem with the lovely layout and artwork. This is truly a work of art in every sense of the word, literary and visual.
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An essential, like Ezra Jack Keats, Shakespeare, Virginia Lee Burton, the Greek myths, and the Bible,
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This thin oversize book---bought on a whim when my four were young, because I'd grown up with Hyman's illustrations--became a staple of my kids' childhood. They pulled it out in October, in lovely anticipation of coming snow. We read it in spring, as we prepared to face the summer's heat. In fact there were years when this book was never put away at all.
It's charm is not just one of selection, illustration or layout, but all three and much more, too. Barbara Rogasky selected modern and old works of poetry both nonsensical and profound and, married to Hyman's wonderful watercolors portraying life in their chaotic, shared Oregon house, these works just come alive. In fact an adult, too, can easily sink into the big, crowded Hyman/Rogasky farmhouse right along with their children. This is a purchase that parents will want to keep for their grandchildren. Mine stands by.
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Quiet, white poems on a quiet, solemn day,
This review is from: Winter Poems (Paperback)
I hardly ever pick up a book of poems any more. But today during the last period of class on Friday, during what we call exploratory for middle school students, during which time six students were helping process books for checking out, "Winter Poems" came through our assembly.
The cover illustration by Trina Schart Hyman caught my eye--fat snowflakes falling straight down, brightly clad children going obout the business of playing. I thought it would be silly poetry, but listen to this one, so mysterious: "Cat, if you go outdoors you must walk in the snow. You will come back with little white shoes on your feet.... .... I will bring you a saucer of milk like a marguerite... stay with me, Cat. Outdoors the wild winds blow. Outdoors, the wild winds blow, Mistress, and dark is the night, strange voices cry in the trees, intoning strange lore.... Mistress, there are portents abroad of magic and might, and things that are yet to be done. Open the door! by Elizabeth Coatsworth That last line took me so by surprise! Or this wonderful descriptor: "Winter dark comes early mixing afternoon and night. Soon there's a comma of a moon .... by Lilian Moore or this one by Wallace Stevens: "Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. .... It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing, And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat in the cedar-limbs. by Wallace Stevens And Sara Teasdale, and Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg--many of the greats are represented by this thin volume of winter poems. So pull up a chair, pour a cup of tea, wrap yourself in a soft blanket, and open a book of winter poems. Can you feel it, hear the crunch of snow underfoot, smell the crisp air?
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- Pass the Poetry, Please! by Lee Bennett Hopkins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Books on Wheels: Cooperative Learning Through Thematic Units by Janice McArthur on page 124, and page 126
- Earth Sciences: Curriculum Resources and Activities for School Librarians and Teachers by Amy Bain on page 121, and page 124
- Hands-On Phonics Activities for Elementary Children by Karen Meyers Stangl on page 252
- The Big Book of Picture-Book Authors & Illustrators: Grades K-3 by James Preller on page 60
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