Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets / Kwame Alexander ; with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Copyright date: 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 40 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Education group: School children
  • Age group: Children
  • Age group: Preteens
ISBN:
  • 9780763680947
  • 076368094X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JUV PN 1031 .O98 2017
Contents:
Part 1. Got style? -- How to write a poem : celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye / Kwame Alexander -- In every season : celebrating Robert Frost / Marjory Wentworth -- I like your : celebrating e. e. cummings / Kwame Alexander -- Contemporary haiku : celebrating Basho / Chris Colderley -- Snapshots : celebrating Nikki Giovanni / Chris Colderley -- Jazz jive jam : celebrating Langston Hughes / Kwame Alexander -- part II. In your shoes -- Walter, age ten : celebrating Walter Dean Myers / Kwame Alexander -- A field of roses : celebrating Emily Dickinson / Chris Colderley -- The blue alphabet : celebrating Terrance Hayes / Marjory Wentworth -- How Billy Collins writes a poem : celebrating Billy Collins / Marjory Wentworth -- The Music of the earth : celebrating Pablo Neruda / Marjory Wentworth -- Tambourine things : celebrating Judith Wright / Chris Colderley -- (Loving) the world and everything in it : celebrating Mary Oliver / Marjory Wentworth -- part III. Thank you -- Hue and cry : celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks / Kwame Alexander -- The poet inside me : celebrating Sandra Cisneros / Chris Colderley -- No idle days : celebrating William Carlos Williams / Chris Colderley -- Song of Uhuru : celebrating Okot p'Bitek / Kwame Alexander -- For our children's children : celebrating Chief Dan George / Chris Colderley -- Spin a song : celebrating Rumi / Marjory Wentworth -- Majestic : celebrating Maya Angelou / Kwame Alexander -- About the poets being celebrated -- About the authors.
Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner, 2018.
  • Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017.
  • A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Summary: Presents a collection of 20 poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.Summary: 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.
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Part 1. Got style? -- How to write a poem : celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye / Kwame Alexander -- In every season : celebrating Robert Frost / Marjory Wentworth -- I like your : celebrating e. e. cummings / Kwame Alexander -- Contemporary haiku : celebrating Basho / Chris Colderley -- Snapshots : celebrating Nikki Giovanni / Chris Colderley -- Jazz jive jam : celebrating Langston Hughes / Kwame Alexander -- part II. In your shoes -- Walter, age ten : celebrating Walter Dean Myers / Kwame Alexander -- A field of roses : celebrating Emily Dickinson / Chris Colderley -- The blue alphabet : celebrating Terrance Hayes / Marjory Wentworth -- How Billy Collins writes a poem : celebrating Billy Collins / Marjory Wentworth -- The Music of the earth : celebrating Pablo Neruda / Marjory Wentworth -- Tambourine things : celebrating Judith Wright / Chris Colderley -- (Loving) the world and everything in it : celebrating Mary Oliver / Marjory Wentworth -- part III. Thank you -- Hue and cry : celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks / Kwame Alexander -- The poet inside me : celebrating Sandra Cisneros / Chris Colderley -- No idle days : celebrating William Carlos Williams / Chris Colderley -- Song of Uhuru : celebrating Okot p'Bitek / Kwame Alexander -- For our children's children : celebrating Chief Dan George / Chris Colderley -- Spin a song : celebrating Rumi / Marjory Wentworth -- Majestic : celebrating Maya Angelou / Kwame Alexander -- About the poets being celebrated -- About the authors.

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.

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner, 2018.

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017.

A Junior Library Guild Selection.

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