Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Heidi Stemple (Author), Gil Ashby (Author, Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

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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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press; 1st edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563978865
• ISBN-13: 978-1563978869
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,208,743 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mother and daughter, April 18, 2003

By A Customer

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opposites Attract, February 24, 2001

By	Pam (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews

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, May 8, 2008

By	HosTess - See all my reviews

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.