Poem in My Pocket |
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Author:
| Tougas, Chris |
Illustrator:
| Bisaillon, Josée |
ISBN: | 978-1-5253-0145-2 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2021 |
Publisher: | Kids Can Press, Limited
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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Rhyming, fanciful allegory of the creative writing process.When a child's carefully written poem slips out of a ripped pocket, its words join randomly with other words to form funny riffs and puns all over a busy city street. The child scrambles to capture the loose words and arrange them back into poem form, only to lose them again as a storm swoops in. Eventually, the words plant themselves in the muddy ground, growing into something that might be even better than the original poem:...
More DescriptionRhyming, fanciful allegory of the creative writing process.When a child's carefully written poem slips out of a ripped pocket, its words join randomly with other words to form funny riffs and puns all over a busy city street. The child scrambles to capture the loose words and arrange them back into poem form, only to lose them again as a storm swoops in. Eventually, the words plant themselves in the muddy ground, growing into something that might be even better than the original poem: a Poet-Tree.A poem is never really lost. The words may just need a little room to play.