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| moving on up....down? sideways?
Anyway, I'm moving this blog to http://bunnyplanet.blogspot.com/. Please join me there.
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| a review of Wonderful WordsWonderful Words edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Illustrated by
Karen Barbour. Simon & Schuster, 2004 (0-689-83588-4) $16.95
"I'll plant in you
a spring-seedling
with bursting life
while you are reading
I am the book
You are needing."
Words rise and dance and spin; are piled like blocks;
pierce the darkness; and wear long boots, hard boots in
this collection of poems.
Books, poems, writing, talking and even listening are what the words
are about... and just as they should, they dazzle, warm and satisfy
the ear when they're read aloud. The illustrations have a primitive,
folk-art flair that occasionally crosses over into garishness, but
most are good companions to the whimsical, wise and childlike moods
of the wonderful words. (4 & up)
I just had to quote that
poem... And then I had to share it. It's by Tom Robert Shields, by the
way, and I have no idea who he is, but he is clearly a Zen Master.
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| I just realized that Powell's has cut a lot of images from their site, making my
site look like it's been attacked by a random hacker with a lot of
wite-out. What to do, what to do. I have never had much
patience for the technical side of things and I have never had less
time or energy for it than I do right now....
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| Last issue of the year is up at http://www.windowsill.net/13.5.html. A few Winter/Christmas themed reprints and some more recent YA novels that I enjoyed.
I have five more bibliographies simmering on a back burner for next year.... bwahahahahahaha!
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| Brag Book
I arrived at the library the other day, just in time to solve a children's book reference question. (The answer: the Seven Silly Eaters.) How cool is that? Both that I was asked, and that I knew the answer.
(I was also able to solve By the Great Horn Spoon, but that was just due to googling skills, not actual knowledge.)
I've made a number of 2005 additions to the winter bibliography, btw...
and will have one more issue of Notes out before the end of the
year. One of the loveliest new books out is called Winter Lights;
it's poems about all aspects of winter, gorgeously illustrated with
hand-made quilt pieces. You'd be surprised how much fabric can
seem to glow and shine.
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