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Cargando... Getting Used to the Dark: 26 Night Poemspor Susan Marie Swanson
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() This book is another collection of poems, this time about night time. The one that caught my eye the most is titled, "Deer Dream." The end of the poem states, "She is a runner without any home except my dream." I thought this line was so much deeper than what a student may think. I would be interested to see what a student may think of this line if it was read aloud to them. Although I put a tag as easy, I do think these have deeper meaning than the other poetry books I read for this week. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
June 3, 1965 -- the first American space walk. And for Tommy, a chance to listen to the event, live, with his father. But Dad has an important meeting and can't be home in time. That's all right. Tommy can wait till the evening news, just as he can wait to become an astronaut someday, when all his space games with Dad and their walkie-talkies will become real. Later, at school, the kids go to the Large Group Room to watch Gemini Four lift off. The front page of the afternoon paper carries an artist's rendering of the space walk, and the picture inspires Tommy, after school, to draw on his imagination. He's floating deep in space until -- Beeeep! Dad's home! Beeeep! But Tommy's left his bike in the driveway. And a bad mood. He's hunched behind uninterested in any space walk now. All the scarier, Dad seems to have become his car: cold, closed off, roaring. That's how Tommy sees the homecoming: Dad's beyond reach. Until, wonderfully, the man reads his boy loud and clear, as if a walkie-talkie hascrackled to life. This is a book about father-son feeling, revealed in words and pictures of inventive vitally (the spreads of Dad-as-car are ex No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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![]() GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:![]()
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