God Went to Beauty School
A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist. Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out human...
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A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist. Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out human activities such as getting a dog, writing a fan letter, and making spaghetti. God Went to Beauty School combines the awesome with the everyday in an accessible, thought–provoking, and intelligent manner.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060094355 (0060094354)
Publish date: February 28th 2006
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Some poems were funny, others brought me to tears, but they all portrayed God/god in a sympathetic, human way that gives children and young adults a safe place to think about God and how they perceive Him/Her/It.
Not really a novel in verse. More like a very short collection of poems on a similar theme: the humanity of God. Some of them are more promising (and make more sense) than others, but I was glad to have read them all.
This is a delightful book, a playful and joy-infused paean to humanity and the imagination. It's ostensibly a collection of poems about God, and this atheist found it to be hilarious in parts and sacred in others. Highly recommended.
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