Tuesday is library day at my daughter’s school. Which means every Tuesday morning is spent rummaging around through the piles searching fot the borrowed volume in order to return it to it’s rightful home.
We always manage (by the skin of our teeth) to find the book.
So in honor of this ritual, I thought I should give a shout out to the poetry book we purchased over the weekend that has earned a top tier posiiton on the family reading list. Neighbors: The Yard Critters is a poetry book written by George Held and illustrated by Joung Un Kim in the collage/drawing/painting style that seems to be everywhere these days. And yet, when done well, is extremely captivating.
The poems are sophisticated but simple, providing an introduction to poetry that is engaging without being… well… stupid.
It’s a beautiful celebration of springtime and of lazy afternoons (and evenings) spent outdoors. And it makes a great gift, not the least because it’s pretty new, so your friends probably don’t have it already.
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