From the Heart - Hardcover

Marsh, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803714491 ISBN 13: 9780803714496

Publisher: Dial, 1993

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Fifteen poems depict the fun and feeling of being in love

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-8-- Fifteen love poems, organized around different animals, insects, and plants. Each selection plays on the word "heart" in the title and/or text and is illustrated by an acrylic painting that further clarifies the subject. "Light-Hearted," for instance, is accompanied by a picture of a moth hovering over the sun and concludes "As a moth heads to the flame/ Unaware of fire,/ My heart's attracted just the same,/ Guided by desire." The paintings are vibrant, but the poetry is not. The word play and images are predictable. "Warm-Hearted" (accompanied by the painting of a big horn sheep) begins "Sheepishly I must reveal . . . I can't pull wool over your eyes" and ends "And so without much more ado/ I must declare that I love ewe." There seems to be no reason to throw animals and love poems together--there is certainly a wealth of good, punny animal poems from Ogden Nash to J. Patrick Lewis and wonderful love poetry already in existence. Their marriage in this case is not a happy one. --Kathleen Whalin, Belfast Public Library, ME
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Although it looks like a small-format picture book for children, this coy and derivative collection of "light-hearted verse" is intended for young adults. Each cliche-ridden verse is faced by a slick commercial painting thick with heavy humor: the milk-white muzzle of a cat and pink snout of a pig are heart-shaped; the poet's "mind's eye" floats in a blue sky, where the bodies of two dragonflies form a segmented heart (dragonflies, we're told, "mate on the wing!" and then, "when secure in their embrace, / Procreation's taking place"). Even when the tongue-in-cheek humor is obvious--"Say that you will be my mate" says the lion who cannot hide his "main love"--this gift book unabashedly apes the puns found in penny valentines. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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