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Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Since its original publication in 1961, Hailstones And Halibut Bones, Mary O'Neill's renowned work of poetry about the colors of the spectrum, has become a modern children's classic. This newly illustrated edition features lavish full-color illustrations from an award-winning artist, yet the poems have been left intact with all the powerful rhythm and rich language of the ...more
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
April 1st 1990
by Doubleday Books for Young Readers
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Title: Hailstones and Hailbut Bones
Author: Mary O'Neill
Illustrator: John Wallner
Originally Published: 1961
Interest Level: 4-6, Grades 1 and Up
Summary: Award-winner Wallner has illustrated this full-color edition of O'Neill's classic poetry book. With a compelling sense of rhythm and with images that are clear and fresh, O'Neill explores the spectrum in 12 poems and 12 different colors. Wallner has created montages of each poem's images and colored them with va...more
Author: Mary O'Neill
Illustrator: John Wallner
Originally Published: 1961
Interest Level: 4-6, Grades 1 and Up
Summary: Award-winner Wallner has illustrated this full-color edition of O'Neill's classic poetry book. With a compelling sense of rhythm and with images that are clear and fresh, O'Neill explores the spectrum in 12 poems and 12 different colors. Wallner has created montages of each poem's images and colored them with va...more
My mom send me down to her shelves to grab some books for Ezra and I found this! I haven't seen it in ages but just seeing the cover brought back a flood of memories. This was my FAVORITE poetry book, I read it over and over. I loved the illustrations too! These are wonderful children's poems; they are easy to read aloud, the metaphors are simple easy to understand, and they all rhyme. (Who gets non-rhyming poetry as a kid?) I remember my favorite poem was White. I think now it's Purple.
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Another Leonard Weisgard illustrated book -- I picked this to get from the library out of his illustrated work simply on title alone. The poem by O'Neill definitely has some nice moments; unfortunately it's dated and tells us that Indians are Red and Babies are Pink. But otherwise sweet and even goes beyond the basic iamges that you might expect in many poems about colors for children: "You can smell blue / In many a thing: / Gentian and larkspur / Forget-me-nots, too. / And if you listen /...more
O'Neill, K.(1989). Hailstoes and Halibut Bones,Doubleday,
New York, N.Y.
Copyright, 1961.
Illinstrated by: Leonard Weisgard.
Newly illustrated: John Wallner.
Interest Level: K-3
Reading Level: 3
Hailstones and HalibuBones is read aloud book, recommended in The Read Aloud Handbook. It is a book that could be read independently by a child who is beyond early chilhood.
This book of poetry presents thoughts and images of colors and stylized ...more
New York, N.Y.
Copyright, 1961.
Illinstrated by: Leonard Weisgard.
Newly illustrated: John Wallner.
Interest Level: K-3
Reading Level: 3
Hailstones and HalibuBones is read aloud book, recommended in The Read Aloud Handbook. It is a book that could be read independently by a child who is beyond early chilhood.
This book of poetry presents thoughts and images of colors and stylized ...more
Beautiful verses creating lovely images in a single hue. This is a wonderful going to bed book for my son, it's extremely soothing. Unfortunately it puts my mom to sleep faster than it does him, so she can't use it. I however can read it over and over.
The title poem:
What is White?
White is a Dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley---
A ship's sail
A kite's tail
A wed...more
The title poem:
What is White?
White is a Dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley---
A ship's sail
A kite's tail
A wed...more
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This was given to me by friends of my parents when I was very small. It seemed like a fuddy-duddy book, but I absolutely loved it. I don't think I was reading yet, or had just started, so my mother read it with me. I'm happy to see it's a classic and still around. I can still see some of the illustrations in my mind's eye even though I haven't opened the book in 200 years.
This is an excellent book, and I love the color poems. They are well written and they rhyme, too. I also thought is was funny to read the introduction in the book and see that publishing Hailstones and Halibut Bones was almost a mistake. The author was due with some work that was not yet ready. So her publisher came over to her house and took a look around in hope of finding SOMETHING she could use. That's when her publisher found a bunch of poems all stuffed in a desk drawer that the author, Ma...more
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This book is fantastic for teaching poetry. I love it. It's good for description, metaphor, 5 senses, etc, and my students have really enjoyed reading the short poems.
A great collection of color poems. A great way to introduce poetry and then allow students to write poetry about their favorite color.
I love this book!!! Mary O'Neil brilliantly describes all the colors in a poetic fashion. It's one of my many childhood favorites!!!
It is just a pole of images circling in your mind while you read this highly enjoyable poetry book.
very, very cute. what an awesome way to mix poetry and color. loved reading this to my grandson
Poetry book about colors. A great book to teach metaphors. The descriptions are great.
Very cute poems for kids - each poem is about a different color.
Excellent book that provides a poem for each color.
Great imagery! A fantastic poetry book for K-5.
Really great poetry book about colors
read this in braille.. i loved it!
A poem for every color!
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i LEARNED colors:)
This is a really neat poetry book that can be used in any grade level. I used it with fourth graders to teach descriptive writing and poetry but you could use it in the classroom in a variety of ways. It is full of poems on the different colors. The poems are very descriptive and have great comparisons and imagery. The illustrations are really nice as well. Kids would like it because kids like poetry and my students enjoyed it when I read the poem and had them guess which color it was about.
My mother read these color poems to me as a child. Reading them is like comfort food. I love poetry because of her. My favorite poems is Black . . ."The sound of black is BOOM, BOOM, BOOM echoing in an empty room. Black is a feeling hard to explain, like suffering but without the pain. Think of what starlight and lamp light would lack, Diamonds and fireflies, if they couldn't lean against black."
My mom had a copy of this book when I was growing up, so when I saw it at DI, I had to buy it. Not only is it nostalgic for me, but this collection of poetry about colors is fun. We (my kids and I) thoroughly enjoyed reading it. We discussed many of the adjectives in the poetry. Great English lesson!
five stars for the writing. illustrations disappointing. but wonderful wonderful text describing colors with words
This is another book that tugs at my heartstrings. It is a book that my mother and I spent hours reading. It is a great descriptive book of colors and objects. It would be great for teaching adjectives.
This is a fun book of poetry with every poem describing a different color. "Brown" is my favorite. It is not too juvenile and would make a great poetry unit in late elementary through highschool writing classes.
I pored over this book of poems about colors as a kid, and love reading it to my kids. The attempt to pin down the essence of colors, their feelings and associations, seemed very right to me.
loved this book as a kid!
Easily one of my most favorite poetry books. Colors described in thoughts and feelings. Awesome book.
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“Think of what starlight
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .”
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And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .”
