{"id":37947,"date":"2024-05-03T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37947"},"modified":"2024-05-03T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:50:09","slug":"review-of-in-the-woods-by-david-elliott-illustrated-by-rob-dunlavey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37947","title":{"rendered":"Review of In the Woods, by David Elliott, illustrated by Rob Dunlavey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/in_the_woods_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/in_the_woods_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40160\" \/><\/a><em>In the Woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by David Elliott<br \/>\nillustrated by Rob Dunlavey<\/p>\n<p>Candlewick Press, 2020.  36 pages.<br \/>\nReview written July 7, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Woods<\/em> is a book of poems about fifteen creatures that live in the woods, accompanied by large, beautiful paintings.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites are the short and snappy ones.  Such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SKUNK<\/p>\n<p>Give the skunk<br \/>\na lot of<br \/>\nroom, unless<br \/>\nyou care for<br \/>\nstrong perfume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The PORCUPINE<\/p>\n<p>Does not hurry.<br \/>\nNever scampers.<br \/>\nWill not scurry.<\/p>\n<p>Beware this surface nonchalance;<br \/>\nwhen rushed, she gives<br \/>\na barbed response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The longer poems are nice, too, and none of them are terribly long.  These poems nicely celebrate the woodland world.<\/p>\n<p>In the back there are two pages of \u201cNotes about the Animals\u201d with a little more information.  So this is a beginning science book as well as a beginning poetry book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/candlewick.com\/\">candlewick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0763697834\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/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 book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but 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>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<p>*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Woods by David Elliott illustrated by Rob Dunlavey Candlewick Press, 2020. 36 pages. Review written July 7, 2020, from a library book In the Woods is a book of poems about fifteen creatures that live in the woods, accompanied by large, beautiful paintings. My favorites are the short and snappy ones. Such as: [&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-37947","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\/37947","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=37947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43715,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions\/43715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}