Thanks, Dori, for hosting this week.
I haven't posted since June. Even though I'm not headed back to the classroom, almost September is a good time to renew my commitment to the Poetry Friday community. Last spring, I discovered Book by John Agard. I loved this distinguished history told in first person by book. It's a delightful romp through book's development from the pictogram to the codex and ending with a conversation with its friendly rival, the ebook. One of our 6th grade teachers ordered a class set for her early civilizations social studies class after I shared the book with her last spring. A poem by Grace Nichols and shared in Book captures how I feel about the books I love. You'll have to look at Book to read the entire poem, but here are the concluding lines of the poem:
"...No the books I love
get kissed and squeezed
and pressed against my heart."
I can't resist promoting Ms. Bixby's Last Day which I just finished this week. It's definitely one of those books that I'll kiss and squeeze and press against my heart for a long time. I checked it out from the library, but I'm ready to purchase this one so I can highlight and kiss and squeeze to my heart's content.
I haven't posted since June. Even though I'm not headed back to the classroom, almost September is a good time to renew my commitment to the Poetry Friday community. Last spring, I discovered Book by John Agard. I loved this distinguished history told in first person by book. It's a delightful romp through book's development from the pictogram to the codex and ending with a conversation with its friendly rival, the ebook. One of our 6th grade teachers ordered a class set for her early civilizations social studies class after I shared the book with her last spring. A poem by Grace Nichols and shared in Book captures how I feel about the books I love. You'll have to look at Book to read the entire poem, but here are the concluding lines of the poem:
"...No the books I love
get kissed and squeezed
and pressed against my heart."
I can't resist promoting Ms. Bixby's Last Day which I just finished this week. It's definitely one of those books that I'll kiss and squeeze and press against my heart for a long time. I checked it out from the library, but I'm ready to purchase this one so I can highlight and kiss and squeeze to my heart's content.
I love to hug a good book, too. I've been known to eat, drink and sleep with a good book. I love that poem. It's perfect, every day of the year. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou continue to add to my piles of books to find & read, Ramona, & I see that I add too, considering Ms. Bixby! What a beauty of a poem, touches me, too! I think you would like Gary Paulsen's preface to The Winter Room, "Tuning", found here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtcnN0aGF0Y2hlcmxvZmxhbmRjbGFzc3xneDo3MmY5MzY1N2RhMGU0ZGUy Thanks for this recommendation, sounds awesome!
ReplyDeleteI loved Ms. Bixby. Loved, loved, loved. I read it from the library and I, too, had to own a copy!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! My books look very hugged. Thanks for these recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI love that picture of the hummingbird, flitting (and sipping) between the pages of a book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the introduction to Book by John Agard - will be looking for this title. I have Ms. Bixby on my TBR pile - must get going on that. Welcome back, Ramona! =)
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