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Sto caricando le informazioni... Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poemsdi Traci Dant
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This children’s picture book uses short prose-poems and full-color oil-on-linen illustrations to tell the story of an African-American family reunion in the Midwest -- the social activities that you can see, and the underlying love … that, it turns out, you can actually see, too. It’s narrated in the perspective of a 10(ish)-year-old boy, though the voice and the details call a girl/an adult much more to mind -- which is fine, because that may be you, reading this book to a child. More than a book about how fun a reunion is, this is about how important family is. (Review based on a copy of the book provided by the publisher.) This book features fifteen poems, all beginning with the line “Must be some kind of love…” It is the story of a family’s summer reunion at Grandma’s house as told by a young boy, and how love makes all the difference. As his daddy says: "Must be some kind of love that stretches that widens that changes Aunt Lois’s two-bedroom one-bathroom house into space large enough to hold 100 people for a fish fry. Daddy say, Love makes this place big enough. so nobody says, I got nowhere to sit. I got nowhere to eat. I got nowhere to set my hat. So nobody says, It’s too loud or we’re too many." This love turns a stranger into a cousin-friend for the boy, and makes his “work-hard Daddy laugh like he’ll never have to janitor all night and farm all day again.” All the poems are accompanied by warm oils by Eric Valasquez. "Must be some kind of love that makes Uncle Maurice dig into his worn pocket and pull out a whole five dollars for me. He says, Son, you done real good. Just ‘cause I won second in last year’s spelling bee.” Evaluation: I read through this story numerous times, wanting to savor the warmth and love and pride that characterized the people described by the poems and pictures. I can see young children doing the same! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.6Literature English (North America) American poetry 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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This book would be a good choice for a unit on celebrations/holidays since it takes place on Mother's Day weekend. It would be a good choice to look at how families share and cooperate to accommodate one another. It's a fine example of using poetry to tell a story, so it could be a good fit in a poetry unit. It's a good book on family and family values as well. ( )