PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Robert Schechter's award-winning poetry for children has appeared in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, the Caterpillar, Blast Off, Countdown, Orbit, and more than a dozen anthologies published by Bloomsbury, National Geographic, Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Emma Press, and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. His poems for adults have won both the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the X. J. Kennedy Parody Award, and his verse often appears in the Washington Post Style Invitational (where he is a former Rookie and Loser of the Year) and in the Spectator magazine's weekly humor competition. Robert is the editor of the children's poetry section of Better Than Starbucks. This is his first collection. S. Federico draws, writes, and lives in New York City with his cat.
In this volume of mostly rhyming poetry, Schechter celebrates the power of a unique perspective through playful poems that delight in turning things topsy-turvy. . . . [T]he plethora of poems dazzle in their variety. . . . For child readers, these poems may spark big reflections on how amazingly quirky the world is and how elastic language can be. . . . Schechter's language and rhyme schemes range from simple to tongue-twistingly complex. Children and adults alike will enjoy bouncing through the vivacious rhythms and the breadth of surprising, marvelous ideas. These are for reading out loud, to laugh at, to muse on, and to grow up with. - School Library Journal, Starred Review, January 1, 2023 Schechter contemplates the sun, the moon, his nose, and other prominent subjects in this wide-ranging debut collection. Showing masterful command of metrics and rhyme, the poet launches observations both playful and reflective [and] dishes up plenty of outright crowd pleasers. . . . Smells like a winner. - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review, January 15, 2023 Silly and serious, thoughtful and joyful, the poems on these pages are all ages. Covering the seasons, words, nature, body parts and doing nothing, the style is a mix of classic poets with a modern twist. - Jeanette, Staff Pick, Northshire Bookstore, VT Seriously funny with a hint of hey! This might be something to think about. - Cannonballread, 10.25.2022 A very readable, collection of verse, that loves word play, absurdities and the old nonsense poem way of thinking, but seems to add something more....strongly sustained, all-ages-friendly rhyme....the mind boggles as to how any sequels are going to be nearly as stuffed with goodies as this collection. There is a lot of work here, with some brilliantly restrictive rhyming schemes in play. - Theediscerning, Edelweiss / Goodreads, 11.16.2022 If you've got any littles in your life, The Red Ear Blows Its Nose is the perfect gift book to preorder for next year's National Poetry Month. Published by Word Galaxy Press, an imprint of the well-respected Able Muse Press, The Red Ear Blows Its Nose dishes out hilarity, wit, wordplay, and wisdom in a playfully illustrated collection of poems for children and others. - NewPagesBlog.com, 10.14.2022 Kids' book pure poetry: Witty pages filled with joy will even hook adults; Official age range is 7-12, but number could be extended indefinitely - The Citizen, (South African newspaper) 11.3.2022
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