![]() ![]() Abdollahi’s bright collages of handmade and hand-colored paper show Thinker with his joyful, brown-skinned family, in a welcome addition to the too-small canon of lighthearted animal fantasy (and poetry) featuring children of color.įrom the July/August 2019 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Beautifully composed in a variety of stylesrap, blues, and free versethese 18 poems offers a black child’s insights into his own heart and mind, and into the lives of family and friends. ![]() “I pat him on the back, / and I say, / ‘You’re cool, Thinker. / Keep on being your / cool self.’” The poems range from free verse, sometimes with well-paced internal rhyme (“fast or slow, high or low / I stop and I go, almost / like singing, making / word-music”), to more structured rhyming poems, culminating in “Thinker’s Rap” (and Greenfield characterizes rap as “real poetry” in her child-friendly author’s note). Thinker has to be himself, though, and when Thinker visits Jace’s classroom on Pets’ Day and blurts out a funny poem, Jace is proud of him. Greenfield touches on themes of growing up, the death of a mother, family, friendship, learning from elders, optimism, and love. Free, a nine year-old African American boy. Thinker likes to recite poetry aloud, but Jace, a poet himself, worries that Thinker will talk in front of other people. Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist is a book of poetry for elementary students describing the philosophy of Nathaniel B. ![]() The two philosophize about poetry and life while getting to know each other. 1/11) here presents a series of poems, some from new puppy Thinker’s point of view, some from young owner Jace’s. ![]() by Ehsan AbdollahiĬoretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award recipient Greenfield ( Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems Nathaniel Talking, rev. ![]()
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