An ALA Notable Children's Book
HONEY, I LOVE
and other love poems
Ages 7 to 11
Love don't mean all that kissing Like on television Love Means Daddy Saying keep your mama company
till I get back And me doing it
Sixteen poems tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life, seen through the eyes of a child: playing with a friend, skipping rope, riding on a train--or keeping Mama company till Daddy gets back.
Each of these sixteen "love poems" is spoken straight from the heart of a child. Riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend...each poem elicits a new appreciation of the rich content of everyday life. And each poem is accompanied by a beautiful drawing, both portrait and panorama, that deepens the insights contained in the singing words.
For the first time Eloise Greenfield and Diane and Leo Dillon have combined teir rich talents to bring children a book that shows them the joys that come from seeing with a poet's eyes--the eyes of love.
Notable Children's Books of 1978 (ALA)
A Reading Rainbow Selection Winner, 1990 Recognition of Merit Award (George C. Stone Center for Children's Books, Claremont, CA)
作者簡介
Eloise Greenfield is a celebrated poet and the author of more than forty books for children, including the Coretta Scott King Award winner Africa Dream; the Coretta Scott King Honor books Mary Mcleod Bethune and Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, co-written with Lessie Jones Little; and the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award Book I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs. Ms. Greenfield is the recipient of the Hope S. Dean Award from the Foundation for Children's Literature and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children for the body of her work, and she has been inducted into the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. "Honey, I Love," the title poem of one of her most wellknown poetry collections, will be illustrated as a picture book in honor of the collection's twenty-fifth anniversary of publication.
