The Real Tin Flower: Poems About the World at Nine

by Aliki Barnstone, Paul Giovanopoulos (Illustrator)

Foreward by Anne Sexton. Poems by this 12 year old. Illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos.

Hardcover

Published November 1, 1969

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of these poems were written when Aliki was nine years old, hence the title. Read the comment from the (now-grown) author, below, for information that explains the support this prodigy was given. The drawings, by her father, are lovely. The poems are interesting and might be useful in a 3rd or 4th-grade classroom. I did enjoy them, and do recommend the book if you're lucky enough to run across a copy.

"She walked with the deer
till they came to the end of the forest
and she remembered her name was Alice,
and the deer remembered he was a deer
and broke out of her arms...."

[Mills College Library]

811.54 B2627r 1968