Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Fleischman, Paul, author.

Title:

Joyful noise : poems for two voices / Paul Fleischman ; illustrated by Eric Beddows.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1988]

Description:

44 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

From the Publisher: Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous-here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful noise" of insects. The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. Eric Beddows's vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own unique way. A clear and fascinating guide to the insect world-from chrysalis butterflies to whirligig beetles-and an exultant celebration of life.

Target Audience Note:

NP Lexile.

Subjects:

Insects -- Juvenile poetry.

Children's poetry, American.

Genre:

Nature poetry.

Other Author:

Beddows, Eric, 1951- illustrator.

Other Title:

Newbery medal, 1989.

Notes:

Eric Beddows is a renowned illustrator who has won many awards, including the Governor General's Award for The Rooster's Gift, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for the Zoom books, and the International Ezra Jack Keats Award bronze medal. He has also had numerous one-man shows of his artwork. He lives in Stratford, Ontario.

"A Charlotte Zolotow book."

Newbery Medal, 1989

ALA Notable Children's Book

ALA Best Book for young adults

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book

Notable Children's book in the Language Arts (NCTE)

Contents:

Grasshoppers -- Water striders -- Mayflies -- Fireflies -- Book lice -- Moth's serenade -- Water boatmen -- Digger wasp -- Cicadas -- Honeybees -- Whirligig beetles -- Requiem -- House crickets -- Chrysalis diary.

Web Site:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

87045280

ISBN:

0060218525

9780060218522

9780060218539

9780064460934

9781413107326

141310732X

0606010750

9780606010757

0833550918

9780833550910

0060218525

0060218533

0064460932

9780060218522

Other Number:

16223845

System Availability:

8

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

8

Control Number:

16096

# Local items in:

8

# System items in:

8

Call Number:

j 811 Fleischm