Gyo Fujikawa’s A Child’s Book of Poems
This collection of poems for children is fantastic! (in my humble opinion) Lengths of poems vary, from one line to three or four stanzas, so that the former is perfect for the attention spans of wee little ones (ages 18 months and up) while the latter length encourages the instilling of a longer and longer span of attentive listening as the child gets older. Authors range from Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, and Proverbs. Some selections can even be put to a melody, if the reader so desires. And, of course, I love Fujikawa’s illustrations, which range from black and white small pictures to full page color depictions of a poem’s essence, all of which are sweet and whimsical. In short, the main strength of this collection is its depth of variety: short to long, small to big, black-and-white to color, funny ditties to philosophical musings, ordinary topics to fantastical wonders, an ocean’s depth of imagination awaits the reader of this–A Child’s Book of Poems by Gyo Fujikawa.
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