There’s a poem for everyone in this touching and funny collection by acclaimed writer, scholar, and educator Eve L. Ewing. With charming hand-drawn black-and-white illustrations from New York Times bestselling illustrator Jonny Sun, this classic-in-the-making will delight classrooms, families, and fans of Shel Silverstein!
Inside this collection, you’ll find poems that ask the big questions of life: Where does a lost sock really go? How do you learn to love yourself and the people around you?
The Best Poem and Other Poems, Too explores the heart, humor, and magic in the everyday, deftly jumping from the ordinary to the whimsical and back in one irresistible read-again-and-again package.
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, and Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks and has written several projects for Marvel Comics. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues.
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There’s a poem for everyone in this touching and funny collection by acclaimed writer, scholar, and educator Eve L. Ewing. With charming hand-drawn black-and-white illustrations from New York Times bestselling illustrator Jonny Sun, this classic-in-the-making will delight classrooms, families, and fans of Shel Silverstein!
Inside this collection, you’ll find poems that ask the big questions of life: Where does a lost sock really go? How do you learn to love yourself and the people around you?
The Best Poem and Other Poems, Too explores the heart, humor, and magic in the everyday, deftly jumping from the ordinary to the whimsical and back in one irresistible read-again-and-again package.
Author
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, and Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks and has written several projects for Marvel Comics. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues.
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