Sid Farrar
Illustrated by Ilse Plume
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 6 to 9
Albert Whitman, 2012, 978-0-8075-8129-2
It is wintertime and when we get up in the morning there
is frost on the windows so that “Each windowpane’s a / masterpiece,” of
delicate frost designs. When snow falls,
children build a snowman, who hopes that the “noon sun won’t / notice” that it
is there.
In the spring a
mother robin’s eggs hatch and she has to get busy finding food for her chicks.
Luckily food is plentiful and she is able to bring an earthworm “back to her
nest to / meet her family.”
Summer evenings
bring careful watchers a special treat. As light fades “fireflies quietly blink
/ their secrets.” This is also the time of year when one is most likely to
experience a violent thunderstorm. Fed by the heat and moisture in the air,
“Thick, black clouds grumble” above the “parched earth below.”
Haiku is a
poetry form that traditionally uses words to capture a picture of something
from the natural world, and the poems are often seasonal in nature. The author
of this book follows the Japanese haiku custom by focusing on nature, taking
readers through the twelve months of the year with gem like poems. The poems
are paired with lovely illustrations and at the back of the book readers will
find more information about haiku, and “The Cycle of Life.”
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