Good Morning, Sweetie Pie and Other Poems for Little Children - Hardcover

Cynthia Rylant; Jane Dyer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689823770 ISBN 13: 9780689823770

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

From playing in the sand to splashing in the tub, this gift book offers a collection of charming poems about the simple joys of being a baby. 40,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Cynthia Rylant is the distinguished author of more than sixty books for young readers. She received the Newbery Medal for Missing May and a Newbery Honor for A Fine White Dust. Two of her picture books, When I Was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came, are Caldecott Honor Books. Her other acclaimed works include the self-illustrated picture books Dog Heaven, Cat Heaven, Bless Us All: A Child?s Yearbook of Blessings, and Give Me Grace: A Child?s Daybook of Prayers. Her most recent title for Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers is The Wonderful Happens. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

From Publishers Weekly:

In eight poems and accompanying portraits, Rylant (When I Was Young In the Mountains) and Dyer (I Love You Like Crazy Cakes) extol the joys of domestic life from a toddler's eye view. Taken together, the album is one big love fest from wake-up to tuck-in nothing is too prosaic for the author and illustrator to celebrate. Running errands, for example, means not only the chance to wave at everyone from inside Daddy's snazzy yellow Beetle, but plenty of adventures, too: "Stopping at the grocery store,/ stopping for the mail,/ stopping at the hardware now,/ 'cause Papa needs a nail." Even a rainy day is no reason for a boy to complain, thanks to a resourceful mother: "She brings out all his baby toys/ (the special ones for baby boys)./ .../ He rolls a ball across the room/ and sweeps the carpet with a broom." Dyer's remarkable facility for creating nostalgic scenes with a timeless feel is in evidence here. Her full-page and spot illustrations rendered in watercolor shimmer. While her characterizations occasionally teeter on the brink of sentimentality, her sensitivity to contemporary stylings and mores keep the paintings firmly planted in a child's universal experience. Rylant wears her heart on her sleeve with aplomb; every poem feels like a warm hug. Ages 1-5.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0689823770
• ISBN 13: 9780689823770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32