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Final Round - 2024 Mock Caldecott Award
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last updated Jan 16, 2024 07:51AM
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Lovely watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations in this picture book[3.5 for me] accompany relevant and ageless lines about the connections among various parts of the Earth and its living creatures. Written in 1983, the poem still has significance today as readers are urged to keep in mind their birth and family members as well as how important nature is. Undoubtedly, the text will evoke a feeling of sentiment and nostalgia for home and where readers come from as well as where they'
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Is there a chance I read this today, of all days, on purpose?*
Harjo's endnote: We need poems when we lose something important to use, when we need to pay attention, or when we need to put something back together that has been broken . . . "Remember" came into the world to remind me who I am as a human being living on this generous earth. We all need to be reminded to remember. Poetry feeds our hearts and minds so we can walk forward in our story with a renewed spirit."
Goade's illustrations are a ...more
Harjo's endnote: We need poems when we lose something important to use, when we need to pay attention, or when we need to put something back together that has been broken . . . "Remember" came into the world to remind me who I am as a human being living on this generous earth. We all need to be reminded to remember. Poetry feeds our hearts and minds so we can walk forward in our story with a renewed spirit."
Goade's illustrations are a ...more
Incredible collaboration between the U.S. poet laureate and a Caldecott medalist. I was especially impressed how the colors "developed" from only shades of red, black and white to all the primary and secondary colors. I think this book has a shot at the 2024 medal.
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Stunning
Poem encouraging remembrance of where one comes from and respect for the natural world. Illustrations have strong Tlingit motifs.
Rounded up because of Harjo's strong case/defense for/of poetry in her Author's Note. ...more
Rounded up because of Harjo's strong case/defense for/of poetry in her Author's Note. ...more
Mar 27, 2023
Nativida
marked it as to-read
