Good art, good writing. My cover art is different

I have encountered glimpses of this book over the years and have finally read it. It did not fail to impress me. I think that my daughter will love it. I can also see using it with the preschool program. It is also inspiring in terms of writing and in terms of looking at the world.

beautiful watercolors!

Great children's poetry book that begs for a follow-up writing assignment.

O'Neill, K.(1989). Hailstoes and Halibut Bones,Doubleday,
New York, N.Y.
Copyright, 1961.
Illinstrated by: Leonard Weisgard.
Newly illustrated: John Wallner.
Interest Level: K-3
Reading Level: 3

Hailstones and HalibuBones is read aloud book, recommended in The Read Aloud Handbook. It is a book that could be read independently by a child who is beyond early chilhood.
This book of poetry presents thoughts and images of colors and stylized illustrations of children of varied features.

The current reade rating of this book is two stars. I found some of the poems presented images that are familiar to children and might provoke additional exampls from them.

I read this book in elementary school and begged my mom to buy it for me. It took us a while to first track down the name of the book and then purchase it, but it was worth it. This is such a wonderful and beautiful book. The poems are so whimsical and fun and the illustrations by John Wallner are beautiful. I highly recommend this short but sweet book.

This book is fantastic for teaching poetry. I love it. It's good for description, metaphor, 5 senses, etc, and my students have really enjoyed reading the short poems.

Hailstones and Halibut Bones is both my favorite book, in the sense that it's one of my favorite works, and my favorite book, in the sense that the copy that I own is my favorite physical book that I own. I got it from my grandparents for Christmas in 1992. It has beautiful illustrations, and I've treasured it ever since.

But I digress. The book itself has a poem about each color. Every poem is fantastic. And every color is painted as something beautiful and interesting and multifaceted, even the ones that aren't in the rainbow and that kids don't normally spend a lot of time thinking it would be fun to draw with.

This is a good book for familiarizing kids with the sort of poetry that deals in feelings and metaphor. Not too deep, but something a little different from the funnier rhymes they tend to start out with. It was published in 1961, so there are a couple of moments that might make modern parents wince (notably the use of "an Indian" as an illustration for "Red"), but the majority is a pleasant series of "adventures in color", as the subtitle states.

The rhythm of the poems was a a bit jarring at times, and the example of an Indian in the poem about the color red was cringe-worthy. However, some of the lines were lovely and a few of the illustrations were very beautiful.

Author Mary O'Neill has created a very unique book in her treatment of color, which is the theme of this book. Colors have certain smells, visuals and other tactile qualities. Leonard Weisgard's illustrations perfectly compliment O'Neill's text.

Super cute book