Eisha and I are about to complete our month-long guest-blogging gig for ForeWord Magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. This week, I wrote a picture book round-up and it’s entitled, \u201cSize Matters -\u2013 And So Do Your Friends and Neighbors” (and we’ll be writing for them next week as well). Lately, I\u2019ve had my mind on picture books whose illustrators, in one way or another, play around with the notions of size and perspective, as well as the abundant number of books out and about now which focus on one\u2019s community and circle of friends. So, I chose eight of them to review. It’s posted this morning over at “Shelf Space,”<\/a><\/strong> ForeWord’s<\/em> column where we are guest-blogging until the end of this month (I’ll have to plan on a Monday post with all the great book cover images). <\/p>\n One of the books I reviewed is the fabulous Monster Hug!<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by David Ezra Stein<\/a><\/strong>, whose snowflake is also being featured today at HipWriterMama’s site<\/a><\/strong>. I began my review of that book thusly: “I think an up-and-coming picture book illustrator we all can get most excited about this year, other than the obscenely talented Jonathan Bean<\/a><\/strong>, is David Ezra Stein.” Yes, my love for Stein’s art work is strong (and fortunately for us and all our readers, he agreed to let us feature some of his illustrations on a Sunday in November. Swoon! Swoon!). <\/p>\n And for this Poetry Friday, since my mind is on monsters and<\/em> it’s nearly Halloween and<\/em> since Eisha and I have been doing some writing for the Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/strong> and playing around in their archive of children’s poems, I am going to share this Halloween monster poem by Kenn Nesbitt:<\/p>\n When the musical contest for monsters convened, The Mummy, he rapped with the aid of a band, Heh. You can read the rest here<\/a><\/strong>. And for another laugh, here’s<\/a><\/strong> another Nesbitt poem, “Halloween Party,” at the aforementioned Poetry Foundation site. <\/p>\n Don’t you just want to read those aloud to some late elementary\/early middle school students? Enjoy. And happy Poetry Friday (and almost-Halloween)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {Note: Please see the post below this one for today’s Robert’s Snow schedule —and Amiko Hirao’s ’07 snowflake} Eisha and I are about to complete our month-long guest-blogging gig for ForeWord Magazine. This week, I wrote a picture book round-up and it’s entitled, \u201cSize Matters -\u2013 And So Do Your Friends and Neighbors” (and we’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe Wolfman was howling and played like a fiend.
\nThen Dracula jammed, but flew into a rage
\nwhen Frankenstein’s torch singing lit up the stage.<\/p>\n
\nbut stopped when The Blob ate his microphone stand.
\nThe Blob, by the way, also swallowed The Fly.
\n(I don’t know why he swallowed The Fly.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n