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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
Reading Age: 8 - 12 years
Publisher: Candlewick (Mar 14, 2017)
ISBN-13: 978-0763680947
“Ekua Holmes...creates mixed media art that is as evocative as the poems they complement and that demand we look as deeply into them as we do the poems.”
— Literacy Daily
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
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