POETRYIllustrated by: Tricia Tusa
2006
Rating: 3.5 (Illustrations bring my rating down)
$15.99
Endpapers: pink
Senryu is a form of haiku. I looked it up on the internet, it has to do more with "human" nature than with "nature" nature. The haiku/senryu in this book are clever, punny, and funny. Paul Janeczko is a great Maine children's poet, J. Patrick Lewis has always written poetry with great humor for kids. This is their first collaboration. This is the second Tricia Tusa book for me, and again, it'ss not as complimentary to the fun poetry as is could be. Some of the illustrations don't seem to go with the haiku at all. They are so suggestive of particular pictures, but she seems to disregard this. Odd.
High school band minus
its tuba player --- looking
for a substi-toot!
and
Irksome mosquito
kindly sing your evening song
in my brother's ear.
and then
City piugeons chatter
and coo -- busybodies
eavesdropping.
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