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By: Aline Pereira,
on 4/18/2008
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 10/9/2007
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By: Aline Pereira,
on 4/18/2008
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An event on the first morning of the Bologna Book Fair set the tone for Aline’s and my enjoyment of the whole experience, when we heard British poet Michael Rosen and Argentine-Mexican poet Jorge Luján taking part in a packed-out seminar about “Poetry in Children’s Books”.
Michael Rosen started his presentation with an interactive recitation of his poem “This is the Hand” (here’s a link to it but “slip” in the 3rd stanza should read “slid”!), and then went on to talk about how he became a poet, almost despite the way poetry had been taught in schools when he was a boy (1950’s England: “we like poems where nothing happens and people are a little bit sad and don’t know why”!)…
As well as being a very entertaining speaker, who also charmed his audience with a poem he had written the day before about his day in Bologna, he had some very salient points to make about why it is so important to include poetry in the school curriculum. He compared reading a poem to looking at a photograph in an album: it freezes time for a moment and “you can put it
up in front of you and can look at it again and again”. He pointed out that this kind of contemplation and reflection are very important for children and that in education there are not many opportunities to do this without having an answer to all the questions. Poetry provides a different way of investigating reality – through suggestion or illustration perhaps – which reverberates in people’s minds and opens the way to a different sort of dialogue. “Stories usually have to conclude; poems can end with a question.”
Jorge Luján began (more…)
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 10/9/2007
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Author: Deborah Noyes
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Published: 2007 Candlewick Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0763624004 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Delicately depicted in mint, peach and red, this beautifully worded legend shares the solitary heartbreak and secret unraveling of a young girl who shines light into her own uncertain future.
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Muchas gracias. I’m so envious you got to hear that and I loved the Tarde de Invierno video. Now I have to go hunt down copies of Lujan’s books!
Jenny
“…this kind of contemplation and reflection are very important for children and that in education there are not many opportunities to do this without having an answer to all the questions. Poetry provides a different way of investigating reality – through suggestion or illustration perhaps – which reverberates in people’s minds and opens the way to a different sort of dialogue. “Stories usually have to conclude; poems can end with a question.”
Wow that is brilliant. Amen. So true we need poetry for this and in schools even more!
We loved that “Tarde” video. My three year old insisted we watch it four times straight through even though we don’t speak Spanish. Delightful!
Yes, they were both inspirational speakers - and I’m so glad you both enjoyed the video.
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Marjorie -
I’m living vicariously through you. Love hearing about your adventures at Bologna and it’s great to see all the photos. Keep ‘em coming!