With One White Wing: Puzzles in Poems and Pictures

by Elizabeth Spires, Erik Blegvad (Illustrator)

Twenty-six original word and picture puzzles provide tantalizing verbal and pictorial hints to riddles whose answers range from food to flowers, bugs to toys.

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Poetry

Library Binding

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Elizabeth Spires is the author of five collections of poetry as well as several books for children. She has been the recipient a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998 she received the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association. Her poems have been featured on National Public Radio and have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, and in many anthologies, including Contemporary American Poetry (7th edition) and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, the novelist Madison Smartt Bell, and their daughter, and is a Professor of English at Goucher College where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.







Now the Green Blade Rises (2002)

>> read " 'In Heaven It Is Always Autumn' "





Worldling (1995)

>> read "Truro," "Worldling," and "Celia Dreaming"

Also by Elizabeth Spires

- Annonciade
- Swan's Island
- Globe

Editor

The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose of Josephine Jacobsen

Books for Children

- The Mouse of Amherst
- I Am Arachne
- Riddle Road

Reviews

[Allison DeMeo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Personal Reaction: This is a very enjoyable interactive book. I have never seen any other riddle books with poetry besides math books. This is a great book to help get students involved.

Purpose: Read aloud for PreK-2. I would read this out loud to younger students because the poetry is very simple. This book will relate to the students because it helps them look at poetry in a fun way. Not only is this book poetry but it would work well with a problem solving unit. This is a way to incorporate poetry with any lesson and it really helps with the first step of learning poetry. Great read aloud for the little ones!

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a poetry book that also has pictures. It is illustrated and also engaging. Each page, the poem is about a different topic, and the children are supposed to hear the poem and treat it like a riddle. The answer to each riddle is written on the bottom of the page upside-down. This book is playful and engaging and I would use it in something as simple as a poetry break or during a unit on poetry.

[Kelsie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. The riddles were very creative with a picture to go with each, but they did not give away the answer. It is an easy read and the riddles are fun and keep your attention. The pictures were beautiful and fun to look at on each page. I would suggest this book to any age group. it is a perfect book to have in a classroom.

[Susie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book of riddles. Entertaining