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April 17,2025
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This is probably my all-time favorite haiku collection, read many times over the years.
April 17,2025
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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.
April 17,2025
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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?
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