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This is probably my all-time favorite haiku collection, read many times over the years.
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Black Swan White Crow
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A collection of haiku brings together such images as a spider in August, bison during a winter storm, crows resting on a phone wire, and a grizzly bear fishing in a stream, all enhanced by woodcut illustrations.
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Genres
poetrychildrenspicture books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,1995
This edition
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32 pages, Hardcover
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October 1, 1995 by Atheneum
- ISBN
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9780689318993
- ASIN
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0689318995
- Language
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English
About the author
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J. Patrick Lewis is the current Children's Poet Laureate. He has written more than seventy children's books, including Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses. J. Patrick Lewis lives in Ohio.
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J. Patrick Lewis’s short Black Swan/White Crow is a bit like a children’s coffee table book. The literary content is thirteen haikus, accompanied by two- or three-color illustrations on the poem’s opposing page. The haikus are pleasant enough, and the illustrations are often a very fitting match to the poem’s message, but there is just not much to talk about it. This book would only be appropriate for a child who really likes haikus or J. Patrick Lewis. Appropriate for elementary and middle school readers.
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I really enjoyed this! I really liked the pictures as well!
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Great book with some wonderful examples of haiku/haiga.
Use in the classroom, or simply if you're looking for some inspiration! Gives a super introduction about haiku: the season word and mentions the "syllable discrepancy" in American English.
My fave:
O little white crow,
have you seen my brother,
the black sheep?
Use in the classroom, or simply if you're looking for some inspiration! Gives a super introduction about haiku: the season word and mentions the "syllable discrepancy" in American English.
My fave:
O little white crow,
have you seen my brother,
the black sheep?
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