Full Product Details
Author: Georgia Heard ,
Isabel Roxas
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Imprint: Roaring Brook Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781250244680
ISBN 10: 1250244684
Pages: 56
Publication Date: 09 February 2021
Recommended Age: From 7 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
In today's Covid-rattled frenzy of online or hybrid instruction and added strictures on behavior, [here is] Heard's gentle call for mindfulness . . . Therapeutic and accessible: an empowering guide well suited for those growing up in this age of anxiety. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Falling Down the Page: Accessibility is one of the book's greatest strengths, since the compact verses focus on familiar aspects of daily kid life. --BCCB A thoroughly entertaining and distinctive collection. --BookPage Praise for The Arrow Finds Its Mark: Will have readers seeing inspiration all around them and questioning what turns words into poetry. --Publishers Weekly A welcome addition to every teacher's writing toolbox. --Kirkus Reviews Intriguing little book offers an appealing down-to-earth entryway into poetry. --Booklist
Praise for Falling Down the Page: Accessibility is one of the book's greatest strengths, since the compact verses focus on familiar aspects of daily kid life. --BCCB A thoroughly entertaining and distinctive collection. --BookPage Praise for The Arrow Finds Its Mark: Will have readers seeing inspiration all around them and questioning what turns words into poetry. --Publishers Weekly A welcome addition to every teacher's writing toolbox. --Kirkus Reviews Intriguing little book offers an appealing down-to-earth entryway into poetry. --Booklist
""In today's Covid-rattled frenzy of online or hybrid instruction and added strictures on behavior, [here is] Heard's gentle call for mindfulness . . . Therapeutic and accessible: an empowering guide well suited for those growing up in this age of anxiety."" --Kirkus Reviews ""This short collection of poems aims to teach children how to slow down and be aware of their thoughts and environment . . . A good read-aloud option for a classroom or library to teach guided mindfulness or meditation exercises."" --School Library Journal Praise for Falling Down the Page: ""Accessibility is one of the book's greatest strengths, since the compact verses focus on familiar aspects of daily kid life."" --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) ""A thoroughly entertaining and distinctive collection."" --BookPage Praise for The Arrow Finds Its Mark: ""Will have readers seeing inspiration all around them and questioning what turns words into poetry."" --Publishers Weekly ""A welcome addition to every teacher's writing toolbox."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Intriguing little book offers an appealing down-to-earth entryway into poetry."" --Booklist
In today's Covid-rattled frenzy of online or hybrid instruction and added strictures on behavior, [here is] Heard's gentle call for mindfulness . . . Therapeutic and accessible: an empowering guide well suited for those growing up in this age of anxiety. --Kirkus Reviews This short collection of poems aims to teach children how to slow down and be aware of their thoughts and environment . . . A good read-aloud option for a classroom or library to teach guided mindfulness or meditation exercises. --School Library Journal Praise for Falling Down the Page: Accessibility is one of the book's greatest strengths, since the compact verses focus on familiar aspects of daily kid life. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) A thoroughly entertaining and distinctive collection. --BookPage Praise for The Arrow Finds Its Mark: Will have readers seeing inspiration all around them and questioning what turns words into poetry. --Publishers Weekly A welcome addition to every teacher's writing toolbox. --Kirkus Reviews Intriguing little book offers an appealing down-to-earth entryway into poetry. --Booklist
Author Information
Georgia Heard is a poet, writer, speaker, and educational consultant who teaches and speaks to audiences in the United States and around the world about writing and using poetry with children. She is the author of The Arrow Finds Its Mark and Falling Down the Page. She lives in South Florida. Isabel Roxas has illustrated several children's books, including Let Me Finish! by Minh Lê, A Day in the Market by May Tobias-Papa, and the 2018 Newbery Medal Winner Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. When Isabel is not crafting pictures and stories, she is making little creatures out of clay.
