Picked this up at a sale today- I can't resist this book. The illustrations mesh so beautifully with the words, and it's one of my favorite Frost poems. I like to have multiple copies of this one on hand to give away to any kid who happens within my grasp.
I am trying to broaden my reading a little so I picked up a collection of Frost. I just don't get all the fussing and fawning. Some were ok but that is the best I would say about his work.
Features in a 1996 nationwide poll compilation.From wiki - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery and personification are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my ...
I have to say, I expected to like this book more than I did. I have been a fan of some of Frosts poems for years, but in reading this book I found that he has two distinct styles. One is simply narrative, which I found I did not like as much. His narratives are mostly conversational, and I found t...
Illustrations on their own are lovely: detailed, beautiful, minimal yet effective use of color. However, they simultaneously oversimplify and complicate Frost's well known poem. A Santa looking man rides into the woods on a snowy evening, makes a snow angel, feeds the animals, leaves food for them a...
And finally another Susan Jeffers illustrated book I didn't realize I had until today. In this book Jeffers has illustrated the famous Robert Frost poem. The illustrations are just gorgeous! Even if you aren't into poetry (I'm really not) this is a keeper. The illustrated protagonist is a Santa-l...
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