Nikki Grimes Poems In The Attic

Using free verse for the young girl s poems and tanka for her mother s master poet nikki grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child s need to hold onto special memories of home no matter where that place might be.

Nikki grimes poems in the attic.

Poems in the attic by nikki grimes. Illustrated by elizabeth zunon release date. Moving poetry travel opening line sentence. 5 0 out of 5 stars nikki grimes makes poetry accessible reviewed in the united states on september 27 2015 this is the story of a young girl who discovers a box of poems in her grandma s attic.

Poems in the attic author. Also keeping the two stories separate on each page was a very interesting design challenge to solve. The poems act as a journal of sorts written by her mother when she was growing up. On each lefthand page grimes chasing freedom words with wings has her narrator write in short bursts of free verse while on the right side pages the poems her mother wrote are in the japanese five line formtanka.

Making sure that the mother looked like herself slowly aging from childhood to teenage hood to adult hood on the last page took a lot of little tweaks. Picturebook of poems theme. Book description during a visit to her grandma s house a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic poems written by her mother when she was growing up. Grandma s attic is stacked with secrets.

A 7 year old girl exploring in grandma s attic finds a box of poems her mother wrote as a child. Her mother s family often moved around the united states and the world because her father was in the air force. A young girl finds her mother s old poems in her grandmother s attic and reads about her mom s experiences moving around the world since her father was in the military. May 15 2015 a girl discovers her mother s childhood poems in her grandmother s attic and embarks on a journey through family history that inspires her own poetic tribute to her mother.

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