| Orlando Sentinel |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Orlando Sentinel |
| What better way to introduce young readers to the rich variety of poetic forms? |
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| San Francisco Chronicle |
| 09/15/2006 |
| San Francisco Chronicle |
| A delicious tasting menu of poems, poets and forms. |
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| Boston Globe |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Boston Globe |
| So colorful, jolly, and appealing that whatever lessons there are will not be noticed, and the wit of Ogden Nash's 'world of mules [where] there are no rules' couplet will go down like applesauce. |
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| New York Times Book Review, The |
| 09/15/2006 |
| New York Times Book Review, The |
| Wonderfully engaging, and delightful for browsing or serious study. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The |
| An attractively packaged entry bubbling with usefulness; budding young poets will enjoy experimenting with the possibilities offered, and it could bring much-needed liveliness to poetry curricula. |
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| Star Tribune |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Star Tribune |
| Paul B. Janeczko dissects poetry in a lively and informative collection called A KICK IN THE HEAD: AN EVERYDAY GUIDE TO POETIC FORMS, paired with jaunty, torn-paper-and-paint collages by Chris Raschka. |
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| Chicago Tribune |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Chicago Tribune |
| Readers who want to be poetry writers will read and enjoy all the examples here, but younger children will especially enjoy the pictures and the sounds. |
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| Time Out New York Kids |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Time Out New York Kids |
| The prolific anthologist [Janeczko] works tirelessly against the odds to instill a lasting interest in reading and writing poetry, especially among younger kids. |
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| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Even kids who 'hate' poetry will find this illustrated romp hard to resist. |
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| Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
| The combination of witty illustrations, lots of white space and easy-to-read poems makes for a great way to learn about an often challenging subject. |
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| Parenting Press e-zine |
| 03/17/2009 |
| Parenting Press e-zine |
| Featured/recommended |
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| Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| Janeczko's disciplined but accessible examples, plus Raschka's spirited Asian-inspired images, add oomph to this joyful poetry lesson, sure to be welcomed by teachers and aspiring poets everywhere. |
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| Booklist (starred review) |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Booklist (starred review) |
| This is the introduction that will ignite enthusiasm. The airy spaces between the words and images will invite readers to find their own responses to the poems and encourage their interest in the underlying rules, which, Janeczko says, 'make poetry-like sports-more fun.' |
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| School Library Journal (starred review) |
| 09/15/2006 |
| School Library Journal (starred review) |
| Readers will have the good fortune to experience poetry as art, game, joke, list, song, story, statement, question, memory. A primer like no other. |
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| Kirkus Reviews (starred review) |
| 09/15/2006 |
| Kirkus Reviews (starred review) |
| A beautiful, beautifully clear celebration of the discipline of poetry--and the possibilities offered by that discipline--this offering will find use both in the hands of eager poets and on the reference shelf. |
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| The Horn Book (starred review) |
| 09/15/2006 |
| The Horn Book (starred review) |
| The title poem proclaims that 'poetry jumpstarts . . . imagination'; this book shows how that's done. |
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