Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Sun's a roaring dandelion, hour by hour.What greater gift on the bookshelf than a perfect anthology of poems? This lovely, over-sized tome of thirty six well-chosen treasures takes us through the wheel of the year with evocative and colorful full-edge mixed media. The only complaint might be wishing the "very short" ride would never end, but open it back up, and the seasons begin again. A book that would be relished as a gift, and a lyrical read-aloud treat for teachers as well.
Sometimes the moon's a scythe, sometimes a silver flower.
But the stars! all night long the stars are clover.
Over, and over, and over!
- Robert Wallace, "In the Field Forever"
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