Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating PoetsThe 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree's New York Times best selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning

The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner

A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree's New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.

Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/14/2017
ISBN: 9780763680947
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 11.50h x 10.10w x 0.50d
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/19/2016
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 66
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017 pg. 69
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 113
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2017 - Book Of Special Distinction
Foreword 03/02/2017
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2017 pg. 110