(Narrative Poetry)
This book is beautiful and powerful and gentle and heartbreaking and all this just on the first page!
One of my very favorite kinds of books is this--narrativ poetry storytelling at its best. While I could waste time on the plot and story, I won't because it isn't the best part of this story. Don't get me wrong, the story is frightening and heartbreaking but there's too much here to talk about and too little space.
On the first page, I was enchanted by the designs of the words. The poems meander with their words like a creek bed in the forests of my youth, pulling the reader gently along. Other poems are round, stone shaped thoughts that stop the reader.
Told in a variety of character voices, it is the story of World War and courage and bravery and women's right with love and sickness and loss thrown in for good measure, like a favorite recipe of what the perfect book should be.
To end, one of my new favorite quotes about women's right during a time when women were just discovering the, "Maybe you won't rock a cradle. Some women prefer to rock the boat."
Don't be fooled by the Newberry Honor, it is as much for adults as for young people and probably more so.
On the first page, I was enchanted by the designs of the words. The poems meander with their words like a creek bed in the forests of my youth, pulling the reader gently along. Other poems are round, stone shaped thoughts that stop the reader.
Told in a variety of character voices, it is the story of World War and courage and bravery and women's right with love and sickness and loss thrown in for good measure, like a favorite recipe of what the perfect book should be.
To end, one of my new favorite quotes about women's right during a time when women were just discovering the, "Maybe you won't rock a cradle. Some women prefer to rock the boat."
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