Poems in the attic by Grimes, Nikki

Poems in the attic
by Grimes, Nikki; illustrated by Zunon, Elizabeth

(#0755JP4)

Hardcover Lee & Low Books Inc., 2015

Price: USD 21.10

Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 28 cm
Dewey: -Fic-; Audience: Upper Elementary; Reading Level: 3.9

Product Overview
From Follett

A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.

From the Publisher

During a visit to her grandma's house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mother when she was growing up. Her mother's family often moved around the United States and the world because her father was in the Air Force. Over the years, her mother used poetry to record her experiences in the many places the family lived. Reading the poems and sharing those experiences through her mother's eyes, the young girl feels closer to her mother than ever before. To let her mother know this, she creates a gift: a book with her own poems and copies of her mother's. And when she returns her mother's poems to the box in the attic, she leaves her own poems too, for someone else to find, someday. Using free verse for the young girl's poems and tanka for her mother's, master poet Nikki Grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child's need to hold onto special memories of home, no matter where that place might be.

Product Details
  • Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.
  • Publication Date: April 1, 2015
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Dewey: -Fic-
  • Classifications: Fiction
  • Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Tracings: Zunon, Elizabeth, illustrator.
  • ISBN-10: 1-62014-027-6
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-62014-027-7
  • LCCN: 2014-010354
  • Follett Number: 0755JP4
  • Reading Level: 3.9
  • Audience: Upper Elementary