Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
By Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley & Marjory Wentworth
Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.
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.
By Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley & Marjory Wentworth
Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.
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.
By Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley & Marjory Wentworth
Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.
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.
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 26.0 cm x 29.7 cm
Pages: 56
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ISBN: 9780763680947
Publisher: Walker Books Australia (Imprint: Candlewick Press)
Release Date: 1 March 2017
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Author: Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth
Illustrator: Ekua Holmes
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Younger Readers (6-9 yrs)
Older Primary (9+ yrs)
Junior Secondary (12+ yrs)
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