Evocative and accessible. Buy Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet from Waterstones today! Sweet’s mixed-media art is elegant, quirky, and friendly… While the inviting art and poetic brevity will lure younger readers (and readaloud audiences), there’s a sophistication in the poetic metaphors that will keep even older elementary readers engaged, and the compactness of the verse and visual translation will help reluctant poetry readers look at verse in a new light.—Bulletin of the Center of Children’s Books"Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems" is something quite special. . … Every poem evokes a moment, and, combined with its corresponding full-bleed illustration, the season is captured for readers to remember, experience, or anticipate. Colors and shapes with willowy details expertly blur or bring bits of the images into focus to create a magical sense of place, time, and beauty. Little orange cat / Charlotte Zolotow, The moon was but a chin of gold / Emily Dickinson, Fall. Whether listened to in the comfort of a cozy lap or read independently, the thirty-six very short poems in this collection remind readers young and old that a few perfect words and pictures can make the world glow. Publication Date: March 11, 2014 Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (3/20/2018) Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book, Peter Rabbit Naturally Better Classic Gift Set, Discover Book Picks from the CEO of Penguin Random House US. A site for a children's book award used in Education. From the copyright page: This book was typeset in Hightower. Scintillating!—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A spirited anthology. A welcome mat of moonlight / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. Executed in watercolor, gouache, and mixed-media, they capture and expand the spirit and sensibility of the verses they illustrate to wonderful effect. Sweet’s spectacular mixed-media illustrations seem poised to break free from the book’s large pages. … Caldecott Honor artist Sweet’s pictures are, in a word, gorgeous. Anthologies of poetry for young people are never in short supply. . … Janeczko has a brilliant accomplice in his act of literary reimagination. . But “Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems” is a glorious example of the genre. (Stanford users can avoid this Captcha by logging in.). Firefly July : a year of very short poems. The illustrations were done in watercolor, gouache, and mixed media. Have students use copyright-friendly photographs of animals, write their own poem about their animal. They are alternately delicate and bold, mistily atmospheric and scorchingly bright. Inventive details abound, too: The last spread shows a child asleep under a crazy quilt that incorporates motifs from all four seasons—a perfect visual ending. … There’s no better way to introduce little ones to the verses of Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wright and more.—BookPage Online[R]ich with color and filled with Melissa Sweet’s eventful, expressive illustrations, "Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems" stands out for its good looks and the charm of its concise verses, anthologized by Paul B. Janeczko.—The Wall Street JournalBreeze through the seasons with this deftly selected collection of 36 poems, each embedded like a jewel in one of Melissa Sweet’s gloriously textured mixed-media illustrations.—The Washington PostIt’s little wonder that Firefly July entranced me as much as it did.
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