Howdy Campers! Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Summer Reading!
JoAnn starts off this round with Summer Reading and an Unfinished Poem, offering a terrific reading list and more. Mary Ann continues with Summer Reading--for Kids Who Hate Reading, Carmela gives us 7 Summer Reading Suggestions for Young Readers, and Bobbi brings us Summertime Adventures!
Summer--a splendid time to loll in the shade and read, your back against a tree. Today's post will be short so you can pour yourself a lemonade and go read outside.
photo from pixabay
Today I offer you one guilty pleasure, one picture book, one audio book, and one poem.
GUILTY PLEASURE
My guilty pleasure is a summer page turner by David Baldacci called Absolute Power. Baldacci is a muscular writer; from the very first page I know I'm in secure hands and we're off on a breathtaking adventure.
PICTURE BOOK
I just read the inspiring picture book, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead by Michelle Markel, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Balzer and Bray).
“Smart and snappy…as inspiring as it is delightful.”-Booklist (starred review)
“Both for fun and education…go-girl power and a good read.”-Kirkus
“Concisely outlines Clinton’s journey from activist to First Lad of Arkansas and on to Washington, D.C….Pham’s (the Freckleface Strawberry series) watercolors are steeped in period detail.”-Publishers Weekly
"focuses on the mostly male political world Clinton had to navigate to get where she is...a lighthearted and cheering girl-power approach."-Washington Post
AUDIO BOOK
I'm also listening to a fantastic audio book, Most Dangerous—Daniel Ellsberg and The Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook).
“Lively, detailed prose rooted in a tremendous amount of research, fully documented. . . Easily the best study of the Vietnam War available for teen readers.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Sheinkin has done again what he does so well: condense mountains of research into a concise, accessible, and riveting account of history. . . [This book] will keep readers racing forward.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Thoroughly researched, thoughtfully produced, and beautifully written . . . a timely and extraordinary addition to every library." ―School & Library Journal, starred review
"Young people in the United States are growing up in a vastly changed world, one where endless war and all-pervasive surveillance is a matter of course. 'Most Dangerous' will help them understand how it has become so."―The New york Times Book Review
POEM
A poem for Poetry Friday (originally posted May 2013):
SEARCH
FOR A BOOK
by April Halprin Wayland
What's
the title?
Can't
remember.
And
the plot?
It
was so tender…
Why
is this your favorite book?
It lit a spark, it fanned an ember…
It lit a spark, it fanned an ember…
The book was in her skin, her cells,
she turned each page and oh! the smell…
At every page
I looked and listened,
every kitten on a mission,
delicately, in pastel.
It was drawn and it was written
to cast a purring lifetime spell.
What's
the title?
Can't
remember.
And
the plot?
It
was so tender…
Why
is this your favorite book?
It lit a spark, it fanned an ember…
It lit a spark, it fanned an ember…
poem (c) by April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved.
Thank you Diane, of Random Noodling for this week's Poetry Friday Round-up!
posted by April Halprin Wayland on the road in Northern California with love
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