| | Wonderful 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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