Out of Wonder: Celebrating Poets and Poetry
A New York Times bestseller!
The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree’s New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.
Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
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Artful mastery at its finest!
Kwame Alexander teams up with Chris Colderly and Marjory Wentworth to pay tribute some some of the great poets - both classic and contemporary. And Ekua Holmes’s mixed media illustrations with their bright reds, yellows and oranges are stunning.
The English teacher/librarian in me practically nerded out when I saw the list of poets being celebrated - all my favorites! Sandra Cisneros, Billy Collins, Walter Dean Myers, e. e. cummings, Frost, Dickenson, Neruda...
Having read and taught these poets and their poetry, I admire the cleverness of Alexander, Colderly, and Wentworth as they imitate each poet’s style and integrate bits and pieces of each poet’s work within their respective tributes.
My favorite: “The Poet Inside Me”
you are the little girl from Mango Street
the one with the lazy locks
and an old red sweater on her desk
Love, love Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street”, and her poem “Eleven” was one of my all-time favorite poems to teach.
You don’t have to be an English major to enjoy this collection.
Kwame Alexander teams up with Chris Colderly and Marjory Wentworth to pay tribute some some of the great poets - both classic and contemporary. And Ekua Holmes’s mixed media illustrations with their bright reds, yellows and oranges are stunning.
The English teacher/librarian in me practically nerded out when I saw the list of poets being celebrated - all my favorites! Sandra Cisneros, Billy Collins, Walter Dean Myers, e. e. cummings, Frost, Dickenson, Neruda...
Having read and taught these poets and their poetry, I admire the cleverness of Alexander, Colderly, and Wentworth as they imitate each poet’s style and integrate bits and pieces of each poet’s work within their respective tributes.
My favorite: “The Poet Inside Me”
you are the little girl from Mango Street
the one with the lazy locks
and an old red sweater on her desk
Love, love Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street”, and her poem “Eleven” was one of my all-time favorite poems to teach.
You don’t have to be an English major to enjoy this collection.
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