Daddy Poems - Hardcover

Micklos Jr., John

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ISBN 10: 1563977354 ISBN 13: 9781563977350

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2000

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About the Author:

Deeply interested in children's literature, John Micklos Jr. saw a need in his community and set out to fill it. He initiated a monthly newspaper column, "Children's Book Bag," in which he reviews several of the latest titles in children's books for his local weekly newspaper. And that's only one way John's knowledge and enthusiasm for good reading serves others. John is Managing Editor, Newspaper, Book, and Special Projects for the International Reading Association. He is editor of Reading Today, IRA's bimonthly membership newspaper, and is also involved in editing book manuscripts. In addition, he handles print marketing for the IRA publications program. An active free-lance writer in his spare time, John knew he wanted to be a writer since age eight, when he wrote a twenty page book about a talking pig that travels into space. His first book since that effort, Leonard Nimoy: A Star's Trek, was published in 1988 by Dillon Press of Minneapolis. The author of nearly 75 newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, John is a former contributing editor to Delaware Today magazine. John is a member of the Educational Press Association, Education Writer's Association, National Writer's Club, and St. David's Christian Writer's Association. John and his wife, Deborah Amsden, a home economist with the New Castle County Cooperative Extension Service, live in Newark, Delaware.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-These 22 poems vary in appeal, but make up one of the few collections on this often-asked-for subject. Contemporary children's poets such as X. J. Kennedy, Deborah Chandra, and Nikki Grimes, as well as Micklos himself, speak to the everyday but big-as-life importance of dads. Free verse or rhymed and metered, several of the poems sometimes border on the mundane, but there are a couple of jewels, such as Emanuel di Pasquale's "Father's Magic" or Karama Fufuka's "My Daddy Is a Cool Dude." Casilla's realistic paintings of families of diverse backgrounds should appeal to children, although the cover is unfortunately drab. Casilla also illustrated Myra Cohn Livingston's Poems for Fathers (Holiday, 1989; o.p.), a collection similar in scope, but with more lively selections (two of which are also included here). And although this collection doesn't begin to touch the vibrancy of Javaka Steptoe's In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (Lee & Low, 1997), it may be appreciated in larger collections.
Nina Lindsay, Oakland Public Library, CA
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