tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post6017258236047684621..comments2024-03-18T09:53:12.654-04:00Comments on MotherReader: Poetry Friday: SomedayMotherReaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11274509991340797264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-57228883458317808472007-07-16T07:39:00.000-04:002007-07-16T07:39:00.000-04:00I feel the same way about the "bound Hallmark card...I feel the same way about the "bound Hallmark card" aspect. I see so many crappy manuscripts that are really love poems to the author's kids, and I always reject them with some line like, "the perspective seems more adult than kid." Then something like this comes along -- something that, despite its heavy schlock potential, is actually quite nicely written -- and sells a billion copies and gives all the grandma-trap writers unwarranted confidence. That said, I don't think it would work at all without Reynolds's art.EMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633057062989686339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-77798243689038217252007-07-14T01:22:00.000-04:002007-07-14T01:22:00.000-04:00It's a beautiful book, both in text and in picture...It's a beautiful book, both in text and in pictures. The collaboration of McGhee and Reynolds = SO GOOD.<BR/><BR/>Have you read any of her novels? I have enjoyed every single Alison McGhee I've read - Countdown to Kindergarten (PB), Shadow Baby (Fic/Lit), Snap (Juvie/Teen), All Rivers Flow to the Sea (Teen), A Very Brave Witch (PB - Holiday), and Someday (you are here!) - and I have been waiting for Falling Boy to come in for me at the library for a month. If Snap is good, then Sea is great, and Shadow Baby is grand.Little Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-43964405505936325532007-07-13T22:06:00.000-04:002007-07-13T22:06:00.000-04:00Oh, wow.Darn you withholding the tissues. Darn you...Oh, <I>wow</I>.<BR/><BR/>Darn you withholding the tissues. Darn you, I say!tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.com