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Gwenda, at Shaken & Stirred, has the Poetry Friday roundup today.You have requested "on-the-fly" machine translation of selected content from our databases. From springs first thaw to autumns chill, the world of the pond. Ange Hardy sings Waters of Tyne I cannot get to my love if I were to die, For the waters of Tyne run between her and I. To ferry me oer the Tyne to my honey Or scull him across the rough river to me. To read the rest, find a copy of this great summer book. Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems By Joyce Sidman, Illustrated By Beckie Prange. Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems-A Caldecott Honor Award Winner A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book From springs first thaw to autumns chill. Oh bring me the boatman, Ill gie all my money, And you for your trouble rewarded shall be. Here is a brief excerpt from the poem "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain." (A water boatman is a bug, I discovered.) As in Butterfly Eyes, Sidman intersperses bits of factual information with the poetry. Junior is into catching tadpoles in a neighbor's pond this summer, so it's fun to recognize some of the creatures depicted here. Beckie Prange's woodblock prints colored with water colors are beautiful, and 2. Junior and I are still working our way through Song of the Water Boatman, but I can tell you that 1. I clued in once the picture book won a Caldecott honor and later when I read and liked Sidman's follow-up, Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, which won the Cybils poetry book of the year. Song of the Water Boatman is about ponds, which I could have figured had I read the smaller print: & Other Pond Poems. At first glance I did not recognize the big duck foot on the cover and instead assumed it was some kind of expressionist abstract something. For the longest time I avoided Joyce Sidman's Song of the Water Boatman because I didn't get what it was about. Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Author Sidman, Joyce Prange, Beckie Illustrator Publisher HMH Books for.
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