Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems - Hardcover

Grandits, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061842833X ISBN 13: 9780618428335

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2004

Synopsis

Offers the creative, imaginative, and weird thoughts of an eleven-year-old boy who, through a collection of poetry and fun illustrations, ponders the many things he sees and experiences in the world around him. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

John Grandits is an award-winning book and magazine designer and the author of “Beatrice Black Bear,” a monthly cartoon for Click magazine. He lives in Red Bank, N.J., with his wife, Joanne, a children’s librarian, and Gilbert, an evil cat. His first book of concrete poetry, Technically, It’s Not My Fault, followed the adventures of a boy named Robert, who was often in conflict with his older sister, Jessie. Blue Lipstick gives Jessie a chance to tell her side of the story.

From School Library Journal:

Starred Review. Grade 4-8–Grandits combines technical brilliance and goofy good humor to provide an accessible, fun-filled collection of poems, dramatically brought to life through a brilliant book design. The eye-catching title selection, an account of a science experiment gone astray, appears on the front cover and its messy aftermath, a squashed tomato, winds up on the back. Simple drawings, varied typefaces, unusual arrangements of text, and different colors are used to call attention to the words. Grandits crafts an 11-year-old protagonist, Robert, whose perspective throughout is authentically adolescent. He is both immature and intelligent, and delights in all things gross as can be seen in such offerings as "The Autobiography of Murray the Fart," "Spew Machine," and "Sick Day." "TyrannosaurBus Rex" features a predatory cartoon school bus munching its way along its route: "More children. More sacrifices./Yum." This book doesn't reach the masterful collaboration of Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka's A Poke in the I (Candlewick, 2001), but most readers will still love it.–Marilyn Taniguchi, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 061842833X
• ISBN 13: 9780618428335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48