{"id":25918,"date":"2015-01-27T00:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=25918"},"modified":"2015-01-27T00:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:32:48","slug":"review-of-haiti-my-country-poems-by-haitian-schoolchildren-illustrated-by-roge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=25918","title":{"rendered":"Review of Haiti: My Country, Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren, illustrated by Rog\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/haiti_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/haiti_large.jpg\" alt=\"haiti_large\" width=\"168\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26211\" \/><\/a><em>Haiti<\/p>\n<p>My Country<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren<br \/>\nIllustrated by Rog\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Fifth House, Canada, 2014.  40 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I meant to read this book quickly, but opening it up makes me pause.  This book includes fifteen poems by schoolchildren, and one by their teacher.  All the poems are about Haiti &#8212; and they celebrate its beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the poems are large portraits of the children themselves, looking back at the reader.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite poem is by Judes-Raldes Raymond:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pretty flowers of my country are to me<br \/>\nLike pink butterflies<br \/>\nThat smile at the sun.<br \/>\nI especially like pink flowers!  The pink ones!<br \/>\nThe charming pink flowers in my garden<br \/>\nOf multicoloured flowers:<br \/>\nYellow, green, pink, red.<br \/>\nThey are all lovely<br \/>\nAttached to their roots.<br \/>\nThe giant sun shines in the sky<br \/>\nTo the delight of the red flowers<br \/>\nin my garden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a joyful, colorful, and irrepressible picture of Haiti.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1927083230\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/haiti.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Chidlrens_Nonfiction\/haiti.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti My Country Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren Illustrated by Rog\u00e9 Fifth House, Canada, 2014. 40 pages. I meant to read this book quickly, but opening it up makes me pause. This book includes fifteen poems by schoolchildren, and one by their teacher. All the poems are about Haiti &#8212; and they celebrate its beauty. Accompanying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}