Books : Come With Me : Poems for a Journey
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by: Naomi Shihab Nye
List Price: $17.99Amazon.com's Price: $12.23 You Save: $5.76 (32%)Prices subject to change.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780688159467
ISBN: 068815946X
Label: Greenwillow
Manufacturer: Greenwillow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 40
Publication Date: September 30, 2000
Publisher: Greenwillow
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Sales Rank: 291343
Studio: Greenwillow
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Product Description:
A journey can lead east and west, from north to south, up, down, over, under, in between, and next to.
A journey can last a minute, an hour, a year, a month, a lifetime.
A journey might be slow or fast or both. A journey might be shining. One journey could remind you of another one. Are you sliding? Stumbling? Floating?
Maybe it all depends on your point of view.
Where -- and how -- will these sixteen poems take you?
Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
Amazon.com Review:
Come with me
To the quiet minute between two noisy minutes
It's always waiting ready to welcome us
Tucked under the wing of the day
I'll be there
Where will you be?
A journey with Naomi Shihab Nye and Dan Yaccarino is impossible to resist. Sixteen luminous poems by Nye are accompanied by Yaccarino's stunning mixed-media collages. Nye, poet, novelist, essayist, and anthologist, writes of journeys--internal and external, short and long, slow and fast. Her poetry invites readers to sail away, to rejoice in the journey as well as the destination, and to notice everything along the way. Yaccarino, award-winning artist, and illustrator of Circle Dogs, Deep in the Jungle, An Octopus Followed Me Home, and others, crafts unusual and compelling collages to lose oneself in. His rich use of color, texture, and pattern complements Nye's deeply layered, absorbing poems. This is a collection to cherish. (Ages 4 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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Rating: - An Awesome Journey with these "Poems fo a Journey"
Besides Nye's breathtaking poems, the illustrations in Come With Me: Poems for a Journey are amazing. Dan Yaccarina fills Nye's book with spectacular images that amaze the eyes and bedazzle the senses. Yaccarina's use of color, shape, and texture help make Nye's creation a masterpiece.
Nye's poetry is marvelously crafted and stirs the soul. The language is appropiate for young children, ensuring children can appreciate and connect to Nye's beautifully worded poetry.
Rating: - Simple things made astonishing...
I am a huge fan of Ms. Nye's work. I write poetry for children myself, so I am always looking for new work for kids that is unique (there seems to be an inundation, currently, in the children's market, of mediocre poetry) - I knew I couldn't go wrong with "Come With Me". This is what poetry is all about - taking the simple, the everyday, and turning it into something astounding! In this book, Ms. Nye makes even the smallest of journeys (a word as it travels from mouth to ear)wondrous. How different ... Read More
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