BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
William Carlos Williams was a country doctor, and a respected poet. Lisa Rogers imagines what might have inspired his poem "The Red Wheelbarrow." He travels around town, making house calls, caring for sick or injured folks, delivering a baby and occasionally typing a poem on his typewriter. William Carlos Williams wrote about regular, ordinary things, in few words - beautiful.
Chuck Groenink's illustrations are soft and sweet - like watching a turn of the century small town in action. The present tense narrative brought me right into the pictures. More about the poem than a biography, this is a fine companion to the actual poem. Includes an author's note, bibliography and a list of some of his most well known poems.
Lisa Librarian
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