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A Stick Is An Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play (2012)

by Marilyn Singer(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0547124937 (ISBN13: 9780547124933)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Clarion Books

review 1: I enjoyed the illustrations in this book quite a bit. All of these poems are about outdoor games...some of which I've played and some I haven't. I appreciate that there is an emphasis on using imagination...such as in "A Stick is an Excellent Thing" where the stick is used as a scepter for a king, a magic wand, to draw with and to strum a fence. Also, with it being summertime....this may give my children/other children some ideas of what to do outside during the summer.
review 2: Another very good collaboration between a poet and illustrator. The illustrations are complementary. I do think, however, that having the illustrations makes it SO hard to think about trying to memorize the poem. It makes it belong in the book, and to me the key thing about poetry i... mores getting it unbound when you find something you like. Several poems hark to playground language play. Some feature time-tested games from children's folklore, and others just show kids being playful because they're outside. Never preachy, but clearly romanticized there are several here that would be fun to remember and recite. Pham's illustration has a lot of the 1940s-1960s in it (such as Mary Blair). less

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