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Night Garden: Poems From The World Of Dreams
A collection of poems describing a variety of dreams, some familiar, some strange, some beautiful, and some on the darker side.
Library Binding, 28 pages
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by Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Genre: Poetry
Summary: Night Garden is a collection of 15 poems that portray many different images and emotions of dreaming.
Critique: A. Relevance of themes
B. This collection of poems is simply brilliant. Wong has an amazing ability to relate her personal experiences to the reader through vivid imagery and simplicity of poem structure.
C. For example, Wong relates to children's dreams by portraying images of flying, falling, reuniting with an old friend, and speaking an unknown language fluentl...more
Summary: Night Garden is a collection of 15 poems that portray many different images and emotions of dreaming.
Critique: A. Relevance of themes
B. This collection of poems is simply brilliant. Wong has an amazing ability to relate her personal experiences to the reader through vivid imagery and simplicity of poem structure.
C. For example, Wong relates to children's dreams by portraying images of flying, falling, reuniting with an old friend, and speaking an unknown language fluentl...more
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Apr 01, 2012
Paul Hankins
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A aural treat for the ear (these poems beg to be read aloud, even if you are sitting in a big green chair in your living room all by yourself) and a visual feast for the eyes.
A beautiful collection of poems just right for spring and the approach of National Poetry Month:
Deep in the earth
a tangle of roots
sends up
green shoots
and dreams grow
wild,
dreams go wild
like dandelion weeds,
feathery heads
alive
with seeds--
from "Night Garden"
Many wonderful, gentle poems of sleeping and dreaming. "Dog Dreams" re...more
A beautiful collection of poems just right for spring and the approach of National Poetry Month:
Deep in the earth
a tangle of roots
sends up
green shoots
and dreams grow
wild,
dreams go wild
like dandelion weeds,
feathery heads
alive
with seeds--
from "Night Garden"
Many wonderful, gentle poems of sleeping and dreaming. "Dog Dreams" re...more
1. This book belongs in the junior poetry genre.
2. This book is a book of poems about dreams. Wong's writing transports the readers into a dream world, where time and space don't matter. While dreams can sometimes be scary, Wong's gentle language is soothing, which invokes thoughtfulness and imagination rather than fear.
3. The area for critique is theme. While the main theme is very obvious, dreams, there are underlying themes that I think are woven in very artfully. Wong discusses friendship...more
2. This book is a book of poems about dreams. Wong's writing transports the readers into a dream world, where time and space don't matter. While dreams can sometimes be scary, Wong's gentle language is soothing, which invokes thoughtfulness and imagination rather than fear.
3. The area for critique is theme. While the main theme is very obvious, dreams, there are underlying themes that I think are woven in very artfully. Wong discusses friendship...more
In this fascinating collection of poems, Janet S. Wong explores the many dreams she and her friends have had. She writes of forgotten friends who come to visit when we slumber, the weightless feeling of flying, that falling feeling when we jerk awake, and even nightmares that originate in the evening news. The colorful watercolor and ink illustrations evoke the swirling, every-changing, mixed up imagery often flashing before us as we dream. A treat for grades 3-8.
This was an amazing book! The poem "Talking in Her Sleep" was hilarious, and the pictures were beautiful yet strange! The poem "Nightmare" had many creepy pictures and the poem was amazing! At the very end, the poem "There Is a Place" made me look at dreams in an entirely different way!I used to think dreams were just things that happened, that you couldn't control, now I think of dreams as worlds that you can shape into whatever you want. This is one of the best poem books I have ever read!
These poems and illustrations evoke the surreal world of dreams.
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Janet S. Wong was born in Los Angeles, and grew up in Southern and Northern California. As part of her undergraduate program at UCLA, she spent her junior year in France, studying art history at the Université de Bordeaux. When she returned from France, Janet founded the UCLA Immigrant Children's Art Project, a program focused on teaching refugee children to express themselves through art.
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