A fun book to read, it explains animal facts in four lines. The ability to do this while conveying factual information is great. It is already a classic children book.
Betsy Lewin was born in Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. Working as an illustrator for greeting cards and children magazines, she has written several children books.
An excellent Writer and Watercolor Illustrator, the book is a significant part of Americana. I would place the book in classic children books. It was written in 1980. It was revised in 2004 as a children book. I believe placing it in poetic literature is an insult to Lewin's career.
Text and images are centered on pages. It appears stoic, yet there is occasional line direction pointing to the text on the opposite page. Fairly standard and stoic, it is perfect for a child from five to eight years old. This is her target market.
The overall aesthetic is impressive. Recognizing her watercolor techniques, she is inspirational to several illustrators. The Professor who taught me watercolor techniques emphasizes smooth lines and avoiding overlapping. She frequently overlaps paint to create shading and depth.
There are literary aspects to the book, yet this book belongs in the section for children. A book about her career with biographical notes, various poems from greeting cards, magazines and children books would be interesting. It would also promote her other books. Lewin is a New York Times Best Seller.
Illustrators might want to look at this book. It is a book for children who are learning how to read. It also has quick, memorable statements to remember facts about animals. I recommend it to children who are five to eight. It might be fun for animal enthusiasts.
Quirky Books
Food Hates You, Too by Robert Weinstock
Showing posts with label poetry books for children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry books for children. Show all posts
Friday, September 6, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
Food Hates You, Too by Robert Weinstock
With less than thirty pages, "Food Hates You, Too" has a humorous twist on food. There is a great range of emotions with only nineteen poems. It is found in the literature section. It should be in the children book section.
Robert Weinstock writes and illustrates books. This book was released in 2006. He won a Sendak Award in 2010. I enjoy his artwork. It appears to be a mixture of paint and pastels. It is difficult to find biographical information. He sells many books and won the Amazon Best Book of the Month Award with "I'm Not" in 2010.
Weinstock has a playful sense of humor. Most of it is rhyming. There is repetition in some poems to emphasize an emotion. Some poems have an unsettling twist or rely on feeling nauseous. However, there are several poems that are fun and celebrate food.
Though conveying several thoughts about food, it is relatively tame. Language is clear. It tells a quick story. The format and text is reminiscent of a children book.
Reading several poetry books in the literature department, I feel several Writer's would be better marketing to the correct audience. Literature has a poetry section. It is compilations of Famous Poet's written by people who want to preserve their work. Another type of book contains ethos, information or philosophy a Child is unable to understand. If they understood; they would get in trouble.
It occasionally has a poem that is gruesome. One poem, "Mom," is about a praying mantis. It alludes to how females eat the male during reproduction. You could watch that on a nature show for children.
I recommend to several of the Authors, who place their books in literature, to advertise these books correctly as children books. This is for Weinstock, Rex and My First Reader Books. The audience is children. Parents, Teens and Adults might enjoy reading the book. It is a book for children.
Poetry Breakdown
Monday by Robert Weinstock
Quirky Books
Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin
Robert Weinstock writes and illustrates books. This book was released in 2006. He won a Sendak Award in 2010. I enjoy his artwork. It appears to be a mixture of paint and pastels. It is difficult to find biographical information. He sells many books and won the Amazon Best Book of the Month Award with "I'm Not" in 2010.
Weinstock has a playful sense of humor. Most of it is rhyming. There is repetition in some poems to emphasize an emotion. Some poems have an unsettling twist or rely on feeling nauseous. However, there are several poems that are fun and celebrate food.
Though conveying several thoughts about food, it is relatively tame. Language is clear. It tells a quick story. The format and text is reminiscent of a children book.
Reading several poetry books in the literature department, I feel several Writer's would be better marketing to the correct audience. Literature has a poetry section. It is compilations of Famous Poet's written by people who want to preserve their work. Another type of book contains ethos, information or philosophy a Child is unable to understand. If they understood; they would get in trouble.
It occasionally has a poem that is gruesome. One poem, "Mom," is about a praying mantis. It alludes to how females eat the male during reproduction. You could watch that on a nature show for children.
I recommend to several of the Authors, who place their books in literature, to advertise these books correctly as children books. This is for Weinstock, Rex and My First Reader Books. The audience is children. Parents, Teens and Adults might enjoy reading the book. It is a book for children.
Poetry Breakdown
Monday by Robert Weinstock
Quirky Books
Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin
Monday, August 5, 2013
Don't Bump the Glump by Shel Silverstein
A peculiar book, "Don't Bump the Glump and Other Fantasies," is either written for children or contains pornographic fantasies. The publisher is Harper Collins, yet most of the poems were first published in Playboy Magazine.
It is awkward, because the 1992 version is renewed by Harper Collins Children Books. Poems were originally copyrighted in the 1960s. Most implication are inert because of lack of understanding any symbolism; however, knowing the poems and watercolor illustrations were in Playboy makes a person want to decipher suggestible language or decide men really do not read articles.
Most of the poems are inert. Imagination is necessary to determine the meaning of most poems. It is implied pornography. Some of it is overtly clear. The suspicion of nudity makes it inappropriate. There is a watercolor of what might be feminine anatomy with a faint silhouette of masculine genitalia.
Reading the book quickly, toward the end I found myself thinking, "What has nostrils for clay and a yellow eye?" I am positive one of the poems is a joke about venereal disease.
It is an interesting book. It is thought provoking. Shel Silverstein is an internationally known Poet in relation to poems with a political orientation. He was a forerunner in evolving the environmental movement, which eventually became the animal rights movement. Overall, it is literature.
I will not provide a poetry analysis for this book. I am sure over half the book humorously references tight antonymous features or dairy air. Instead, "Point of View" offers a sense of his popular poetry.
Despite features like funny imaginary creatures, colorful illustrations and four-line poems, do not buy this for a child. I recommend this book to adults with an off-beat sense of humor. The poems are like puzzles. There is an overall premise. It might be fun flipping through the page to decide what particular images represent. Though barely derisive, on the surface, it is a fun book to read.
Poetry Breakdown
Don't Bump the Glump
It is awkward, because the 1992 version is renewed by Harper Collins Children Books. Poems were originally copyrighted in the 1960s. Most implication are inert because of lack of understanding any symbolism; however, knowing the poems and watercolor illustrations were in Playboy makes a person want to decipher suggestible language or decide men really do not read articles.
Most of the poems are inert. Imagination is necessary to determine the meaning of most poems. It is implied pornography. Some of it is overtly clear. The suspicion of nudity makes it inappropriate. There is a watercolor of what might be feminine anatomy with a faint silhouette of masculine genitalia.
Reading the book quickly, toward the end I found myself thinking, "What has nostrils for clay and a yellow eye?" I am positive one of the poems is a joke about venereal disease.
It is an interesting book. It is thought provoking. Shel Silverstein is an internationally known Poet in relation to poems with a political orientation. He was a forerunner in evolving the environmental movement, which eventually became the animal rights movement. Overall, it is literature.
I will not provide a poetry analysis for this book. I am sure over half the book humorously references tight antonymous features or dairy air. Instead, "Point of View" offers a sense of his popular poetry.
Despite features like funny imaginary creatures, colorful illustrations and four-line poems, do not buy this for a child. I recommend this book to adults with an off-beat sense of humor. The poems are like puzzles. There is an overall premise. It might be fun flipping through the page to decide what particular images represent. Though barely derisive, on the surface, it is a fun book to read.
Poetry Breakdown
Don't Bump the Glump
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Boo by Patricia Hubbell
Specializing in children books and poetry Patricia Hubbell graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in English. The poems are fanciful and orientated towards children. A couple poems demonstrate her interest in agriculture, her initial degree plan. The illustrations make book come to life. Oddly scattered, there is a lot of diversity in relation to Halloween.
Several poems are fun, playing to the imagination of children. Conservative Christians may find this aspect as glorifying magic for the pagan holiday Halloween, yet poems remove any adult content or subconscious revelations. Other poems are set in a realistic manner; wherein, a child is enjoying the traditional holiday. Only one poem appeals to adults on a deeper level "the Old House on Halloween," because it addresses age and loneliness. The Old House is abandoned home, not a haunted house.
Well written, traditional rhyme and meter are combined with contemporary style emphasizing repeated words, "Who is that all dressed in black wearing a tall pointed hat? Tapping, tapping, at my door, with her broomstick at my door?" The illustration provides an image of a young girl trick-or-treating in a witch costume.
Other poems follow the nursery rhyme pattern combined with lyric. One poem "Pumpkins Little, Pumpkins Big" captures youthful associations to Halloween. It encompasses farm elements with pigs and pumpkins. Though never living on farm, the activity of carving reminds me of childhood Halloween.
There is hardly any information related to illustrator, Jeff Spackman, on the internet. A teacher with the same name appears frequently. Copyrighted in 1998, traditionalists were apathetic to computer generated design; however, I enjoy the mathematical placement and gradient. This level of quality required months of development with a ruler and Bristol pad.Frankly, a considerable amount of time and skill are required to create excellent computer generated artwork. The only difference is an artist can do more. The process is faster without fussing with tracing paper.
Being able to add lighting effects does not happen with a click of a button, it is similar to painting a picture. The cute images, eerily similar to modern CGI, are excellent artistic renderings. In fact, I wonder if Jeff Spackman is the original artist who encouraged the artistic style preferred in modern animation. It is very similar.
Not sure if the scattered writing detracts or adds from the book. The poems rarely follow any thoughtful pattern; instead, they stand alone like a portfolio. Even the biography skips from college, to childhood and back to current times with unnecessary information. However, I would recommend the book to artists, parents and children. Unfortunately, teen and adult readers will think it is boring.
Poetry Breakdown
Boo! by Patricia Hubbell
Several poems are fun, playing to the imagination of children. Conservative Christians may find this aspect as glorifying magic for the pagan holiday Halloween, yet poems remove any adult content or subconscious revelations. Other poems are set in a realistic manner; wherein, a child is enjoying the traditional holiday. Only one poem appeals to adults on a deeper level "the Old House on Halloween," because it addresses age and loneliness. The Old House is abandoned home, not a haunted house.
Well written, traditional rhyme and meter are combined with contemporary style emphasizing repeated words, "Who is that all dressed in black wearing a tall pointed hat? Tapping, tapping, at my door, with her broomstick at my door?" The illustration provides an image of a young girl trick-or-treating in a witch costume.
Other poems follow the nursery rhyme pattern combined with lyric. One poem "Pumpkins Little, Pumpkins Big" captures youthful associations to Halloween. It encompasses farm elements with pigs and pumpkins. Though never living on farm, the activity of carving reminds me of childhood Halloween.
There is hardly any information related to illustrator, Jeff Spackman, on the internet. A teacher with the same name appears frequently. Copyrighted in 1998, traditionalists were apathetic to computer generated design; however, I enjoy the mathematical placement and gradient. This level of quality required months of development with a ruler and Bristol pad.Frankly, a considerable amount of time and skill are required to create excellent computer generated artwork. The only difference is an artist can do more. The process is faster without fussing with tracing paper.
Being able to add lighting effects does not happen with a click of a button, it is similar to painting a picture. The cute images, eerily similar to modern CGI, are excellent artistic renderings. In fact, I wonder if Jeff Spackman is the original artist who encouraged the artistic style preferred in modern animation. It is very similar.
Not sure if the scattered writing detracts or adds from the book. The poems rarely follow any thoughtful pattern; instead, they stand alone like a portfolio. Even the biography skips from college, to childhood and back to current times with unnecessary information. However, I would recommend the book to artists, parents and children. Unfortunately, teen and adult readers will think it is boring.
Poetry Breakdown
Boo! by Patricia Hubbell
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