Ella Risbridger

i am having BIG emotions over a cookbook. Ella Risbridger talks honestly and openly about grieving and mental health and struggling and wants to make cooking accessible to all. and the acknowledgements at the end of the book! we learned that Tall Man has passed.. BIG tears. i can't say anything about the quality of the recipes since i haven't made any of them, but they sound lovely! Risbridger is a comforting voice along the way as making food can be tricky for a lot of people. and she makes me want to have big saturday or sunday dinners every weekend even though that sounds exhausting. and i really appreciate how she always mentions to have some wine with the meals… (altro)

This anthology is a collection of poems *by* women and girls - one as young as age five - as well as a non-binary poet and anonymous authors.  It's important to note that the poems are not all *for* or all *about* women, which means the book is for everyone.

The 141-page book has 117 poems, as well as a lengthy introduction and afterword (four pages each) by anthologist Ella Risbridger.  Each double-page spread has one to three poems and a single illustration by Anna Shepeta.  There are three helpful indices at the back of the book - poems by title, author, and first line.  The binding is sturdy, and there's even a ribbon marker.
There were poems by authors familiar to me (most who wrote primarily for children), like Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Emily Dickinson, Eleanor Farjeon, Nikki Giovanni, Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Grimes, Lois Lenski, Amy Lowell, Eve Merriam, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marilyn Nelson, Christina Rossetti, and Janet S. Wong.

However, there was only one poem I recognized:  an extract from Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" (p. 31).  Besides that one, others I liked were about historical figures:  "From Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, to Gaius Seutonius Paullinus, on the Occasion of His Invasion," by Kirsten Irving (p. 46); "Rosa Parks," by Jan Dean (p. 50); "Harriet Tubman," by Eloise Greenfield (p. 52); "Like A Sun," about Queen Victoria, by Elli Woollard (p. 84); and "Malala," by Michaela Morgan (p. 127).

The book was originally published in Great Britain in 2022 under the title, And Everything Will Be Glad to See You.  I think this book will be most appreciated by older children and students.… (altro)