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TITLE:
Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets / Kwame Alexander ; with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
Pub Date:
2017.
ISBN:
9780763680947
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents:
How to write a poem : celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye / In every season : celebrating Robert Frost / I like your : celebrating e. e. cummings / Contemporary haiku : celebrating Bashō / Snapshots : celebrating Nikki Giovanni / Jazz jive jam : celebrating Langston Hughes / Walter, age ten : celebrating Walter Dean Myers / A field of roses : celebrating Emily Dickinson / The blue alphabet : celebrating Terrance Hayes / How Billy Collins writes a poem : celebrating Billy Collins / The Music of the earth : celebrating Pablo Neruda / Tambourine things : celebrating Judith Wright / (Loving) the world and everything in it : celebrating Mary Oliver / Hue and cry : celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks / The poet inside me : celebrating Sandra Cisneros / No idle days : celebrating William Carlos Williams / For our children's children : celebrating Chief Dan George / Spin a song : celebrating Rumi / Majestic : celebrating Maya Angelou
Abstract:
Presents a collection of 20 poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.

Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical 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.
Reading Level:
Middle School.
Audience:
Middle School.
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