Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings
A Poetry, Biography, Picture Books book. "Inside an enormous cityin a house on a very small street,there once lived a poetI would like...
Enormous Smallness is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E.E. cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to his poetry.In keeping with the epigraph of the book -- "It takes courage to grow up...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 64 pages
- ISBN: 9781592701711 / 0
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cummings was the first poet I discovered as a youngster that made me want to write poems, so I was excited to pick this up. However, I found this book really lackluster. First off, there is some awkward unintentional (?) rhyming in the first few pages that really left a bad taste in my mouth; you CANNOT write a book about e.e. cummings... "Inside an enormous cityin a house on a very small street,there once lived a poetI would like you to meet."- Matthew Burgess, enormous smallness: A Story of E.E. CummingsI bought this illustrated, small, children's biography of E.E. Cummings for my wife, my lover, my best friend since childhood. We were raised reading E.E. Cummings.... I read this after getting a recommendation from a lovely-friend. She had slogged through my Swedish mystery recommendation (gave it a tepid 3, btw, don't think I missed that) and my movie recommendation and song recommendation. So it would certainly be a lovely-friend foul if I shirked on her suggestion for me to read a mere 62 page...
