The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Janeczko, Paul B., Selector

A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout

64 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-0663-3 $17.99

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Chris Raschka. These thirty-eight works celebrate the aurality of poetry. Some of the organization is by number of readers (poems to read alone, in two voices, etc.), others highlight form (limericks, list poems), while another section includes bilingual poems in Spanish and English. Raschka's boldly outlined, impressionistic illustrations emphasize speaker or subject through whimsical combinations of watercolors and torn paper. A collection to savor.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2009