Out Of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

"Ostensibly a picture book for children, this collection is an absolute joy – age be damned. Kwame Alexander and collaborators Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth have written original poems in the style of some of the world’s finest poets – Rumi, Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson, among many others. The poems, paired with Ekua Holmes’ bright illustrations, pop off the page and linger delightfully on the tongue and in the mind: “Make a paint box out of letters; add water and dip your brush. Swirl it on the paper with style while you are humming a tune, smiling or standing still. Waiting for the school bus, you can dazzle your friends with the words you have made and strung together like beads around your neck.” (“The Blue Alphabet,” by Marjory Wentworth, celebrating Terrance Hayes)"