Selected for the New York Public Library's List of 100 Best Books
for Reading & Sharing A Booklist Editor's Choice for 2015 A
Book Links magazine choice for the top classroom picks for 2015
"[...] A fierce and fresh bestiary." -- STARRED REVIEW, Publishers
Weekly "The main attraction, of course, is Yoon's stunning,
exuberant artwork, and poetry classes would be well served by this
superior piece of bookmaking." ---- STARRED REVIEW, Booklist
"...this gorgeous compendium is so stimulating that it's probably
best read in the bright light of day." -- Meghan Cox Gurdon, The
Wall Street Journal "In Beastly Verse (public library), her
spectacular picture-book debut...illustrator and printmaker JooHee
Yoon brings to vibrant life sixteen beloved poems about nonhuman
creatures, real and imagined -- masterworks as varied in sentiment
and sensibility as Lewis Carroll's playful "The Crocodile," D.H.
Lawrence's revolutionarily evolutionary homage to the hummingbird,
Christina Rossetti's celebration of butterfly metamorphosis, and
William Blake's bright-burning ode to the tiger." -- Maria Popova,
Brain Pickings "JooHee Yoon's "Beastly Verse" is very much about
its pictures. Three-color illustrations of critters fill up page
after intense page, cheerily aggressive, goofy, beastly-friendly.
Yoon's poem selection is economical, intelligent, even hip." --
DAISY FRIED, The New York Times Poetry and children belong
together, and for a long time, the music and playfulness of verse
wove itself through children's days and lives. Beastly Verse aims
to help return the wonder of poetry to children's lives through
sixteen exquisitely illustrated poems, four of which have the
surprise and pleasure of being foldouts. Consisting of playful as
well as powerfully memorable poems, Beastly Verse transports the
reader into a richly worded world of tigers, hummingbirds, owls,
elephants, pelicans, yaks, snails, and even telephones! A playful
romp through verse, rhyme, and gorgeous images, this book carries
children into the poetic realm in a way that is not only fun and
inviting, but inspiring as well! Representing poems from Anonymous,
as well as some lesser well-known poets, this volume also includes
poems from Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Robert Desnos, Hilaire
Belloc, William Cowper, Christina Rossetti, and D.H. Lawrence. Both
short and long, these poems can be read and reread, committed to
memory and enjoyed all life long. JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and
printmaker committed to the art of bookmaking. Her art work has
appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Le Monde, and
many other international publications. She also exhibits her
original drawings and prints in gallery shows around the world and
was the recipient of the
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