[bookshare-discuss] Fw: NBP-Announce: Kids: Hailstones and Halibut Bones
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:44:51 -0500
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history
and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist
(1940-1992)
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From: "Tony Grima" <agrima@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:59 AM
Subject: NBP-Announce: Kids: Hailstones and Halibut Bones
March 2010 Book Club Selection
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
by Mary O'Neill
Print/braille edition, $9.95
In contracted braille.
Ages 8-13
"I was surprised and flattered then, and continue to be, by the large
audience - including the blind - who still write to me."
- Author Mary O'Neill
"Hailstones and Halibut Bones" is a unique book about colors that can be
heard, touched, and smelled. Originally published in 1961, it has become
a classic, at twice the length of most children's books.
O'Neill explores 12 different colors in 12 poems. Each series of poems
relates to a color, "What Is Green," "What Is Gold... Red... Blue," and
so forth.
Blue is a heron, a sapphire ring,
You can smell blue in many a thing:
Gentian and larkspur, Forget-me-nots, too.
And if you listen, you can hear blue
In wind over water....
"After more than twenty-five years, the poems, like colors, still sing.
Kudos to Doubleday for letting Hailstones continue to live."
- School Library Journal
To order or read more about this book online, visit
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/BC1003-HAILSTONE.html
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