{"id":384,"date":"2009-02-06T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/review-of-a-river-of-words-by-jen-bryant\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T04:28:43","slug":"review-of-a-river-of-words-by-jen-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Review of A River of Words, by Jen Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image385\" height=\"240\" alt=\"river_of_words.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/river_of_words.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A River of Words<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Story of William Carlos Williams<\/em><\/p>\n<p>written by Jen Bryant<\/p>\n<p>illustrated by Melissa Sweet<\/p>\n<p>Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>2009 Caldecott Honor Book.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a simple picture book biography of the poet William Carlos Williams, but it&#8217;s done with excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The collage artwork in this book is noteworthy, recalling the modern art that influenced William Carlos Williams.\u00a0 The artist used covers from old books, among other things, and created evocative and beautiful illustrations of the poems and of the poet&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told simply, with a taste of actual poems he wrote (and several are written on the endpapers).\u00a0 The author tells about how the other activities and interests of his life influenced and shaped his poetry, but how poetry was a constant from childhood on.<\/p>\n<p>An inviting and interesting picture book biography.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that what a picture book biography should do?\u00a0 Introduce an interesting person and provide a look into his life that entices you to want to know more.\u00a0 (And there is a time line of his life and a list for further reading at the back.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802853021\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/river_of_words.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/river_of_words.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A River of Words The Story of William Carlos Williams written by Jen Bryant illustrated by Melissa Sweet Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages. 2009 Caldecott Honor Book. Here&#8217;s a simple picture book biography of the poet William Carlos Williams, but it&#8217;s done with excellence. The collage artwork in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}