Come with Me: Poems for a Journey

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Book Overview

A journey can lead east and west, from north to south, up, down, over, under, in between, and next to. A journey can last a minute, an hour, a year, a month, a lifetime. A journey might be slow or fast or both. A journey might be shining. One journey could remind you of another one. Are you sliding? Stumbling? Floating? Maybe it all depends on your point of view. Where -- and how -- will these sixteen poems take you? Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068815946X
• ISBN13: 9780688159467
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

An Awesome Journey with these "Poems fo a Journey"

Besides Nye's breathtaking poems, the illustrations in Come With Me: Poems for a Journey are amazing. Dan Yaccarina fills Nye's book with spectacular images that amaze the eyes and bedazzle the senses. Yaccarina's use of color, shape, and texture help make Nye's creation a masterpiece.Nye's poetry is marvelously crafted and stirs the soul. The language is appropiate for young children, ensuring children can appreciate and connect to Nye's beautifully worded poetry.

Simple things made astonishing...

I am a huge fan of Ms. Nye's work. I write poetry for children myself, so I am always looking for new work for kids that is unique (there seems to be an inundation, currently, in the children's market, of mediocre poetry) - I knew I couldn't go wrong with "Come With Me". This is what poetry is all about - taking the simple, the everyday, and turning it into something astounding! In this book, Ms. Nye makes even the smallest of journeys (a word as it travels from mouth to ear)wondrous. How different these trips will now seem to us. Each poem will leave a "Wow..." in your throat, and a great desire to explore your world, to discover the all the words to describe it. (And Mr. Yaccarino's ilustrations are bold, vivid - a perfect compliment.)