Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems Hardcover - 2001
by Kristine O'Connell George; Kate Kiesler (Illustrator)
George turns the memorable moments of a family outing into spirited, evocative verse, and Kiesler's vivid paintings provide a cast of characters and the perfect setting. The captivating poems and pictures can leave readers with wonderful memories of a camping trip. Color illustrations.
Summary
From the jacket flap
Small me, in a small tent staked to a huge planet, rolling slowly through open space -- alone.
Everything that happens on a camping trip can be an adventure: Getting dressed inside your sleeping bag on a chilly morning. Rowing across the lake with Mom, exploring a dark cave with Dad. Discovering an abandoned cabin . . . meeting a moose . . . or simply sitting still under a tree, watching and listening. Pitching a tent in the woods is only the beginning!
Award-winning poet Kristine O'Connell George turns a flashlight beam on the moments that make up a family camping trip and records them in humorous, evocative, vividly imagined verse redolent of the scent of pine needles and the sound of bees. Kate Kiesler's vibrant paintings add visual magic to the collaboration, which will leave you with lively memories of a camping trip -- even if you've never been on one.
Details
- Title Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
- Author Kristine O'Connell George; Kate Kiesler (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition None
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-02-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780618045976 / 061804597X
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 10.26 x 8.54 x 0.41 in (26.06 x 21.69 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 04 to 07 years
- Grade levels P - 2
- Library of Congress subjects Children's poetry, American, American poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00056984
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Media reviews
Kirkus Reviews
Like their previous collaboration, The Great Frog Race and Old Elm Speaks, this volume by George and Kiesler is as delicious as a toasted marshmallow treat. George's poems are well crafted, varied and easily accessible. The topics range from a tent-shaped poem about the careful raising of the family's canvas lodging to post-trip unpacking, in which a child tucks away a flannel shirt perfumed in scents of pine, wood fire and forest moss in her "bottom drawer/where no one will find it/and wash away [her] memories." Though Kielser's human figures are sometimes wooden, she suffuses her acrylic landscapes with light filtered through leaves. A few of the illustrations seem too idyllic and scrubbed (in "Abandoned Cabin," its "crumbling fireplace" looks newly constructed; in another, the brother's "grubby hands" seem freshly washed). Yet George's poems shine, the images clear and startling. A "panther cloud crosses the sky"; after a storm, a "confetti of birds... dance another rain shower." A concrete poem in the shape of a waning moon is exquisite: "Tipping/a slender/silver ear,/Moon tries/to pretend/she isn't/listening/to our/secrets." Readers will definetly want S-mores.
Publishers Weekly, Starred
"fine collection brings the outdoors up close...direct, satisfying poems that will engage kids at school, across the curriculum, or at home." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review
The poems are varied and inventive, replete with marvelous images and universal truths. . . .A terrific idyll for summertime sharing, even for confirmed couch potatoes.
School Library Journal, Starred
The pleasure and surprise of going camping are conveyed in eighteen brief poems. . . .Richly colored paintings enhance the verses.
Horn Book Guide
Whether playful or profound, the exquisitely crafted poems reverberate with eloquent yet effortless language, while the radiant acrylic artwork hints at the awe-inspiring mysteries of nature.
SLJ Best Books of the Year
Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/2001, Page 1394
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2001, Page 405
- Kirkus Review - Children, 02/01/2001, Page 182
- Publishers Weekly, 03/12/2001, Page 90
- School Library Journal, 07/01/2001, Page 93
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