![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re going to write poems about the seasons, it’s good to find a way to do so. It’s nothing like their previous book, and everything you’d want in a poetry collection. ![]() A follow-up of sorts to Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski’s This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness, Sidman and Zagarenski do what they can to conjure up what seasonal change feels like. This year, that book would have to be Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors. Generally, I don’t quite find it, but once in a great while there’s a book that hits all the right chords. It’s something I like to keep a lookout for when I read picture books today. It was my first encounter with the evocative and I’ve never quite forgotten it. But the thing that stuck with me, and continues to stick with me after all these years, was the feeling I got when I read that book. I liked how she drew cupcakes, I liked the corgis, and I particularly liked the idea of kids running around playing games and pranks each month. ![]() Now there are a couple of reasons for this. But if you asked me today what book I loved more than any other, I don’t think I’d be too off-base when I said it was Tasha Tudor’s A Time to Keep. Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in ColorsĪs a child I had many favorite books and it was only when I got older that they crystallized in my brain enough so that I could chose a “favorite”. ![]()
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