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Cornucopia
A bundle of touching comedic children’s poems, Cornucopia encompasses a group of light, quirky poems about growing up and living life.
The collection includes light and offbeat intellections with titles such as “Selling Happiness”, “Scattered Thoughts”, “Kelly the Kitten’s Rough Day”, “Mom’s Clever Little Trick”, and “The Feels”.
As a kid growing up, one embarks on a journey of living life, being happy, finding humor in the world and explaining things. Cornucopia encompasses the weird explanations and thoughts from a growing kid’s perspective.
Middle-school students are at a weird and awkward point in their life as the training wheels have come off of them and they are given space to make choices and figure themselves out. They enjoy people, the world around them and visualizing their future endeavors. They are trying to find where they fit in the world. This makes Cornucopia a great collection as it encompasses living in the moment while dreaming about the future and making changes. Its different, moving aspects leave the reader in a place to make reflections and find deeper meaning in their own life.
This collection includes about 140 poems and is similar in tone to Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends. It expresses ideas and concerns of growing children as well as originative and witty stories.
The collection includes light and offbeat intellections with titles such as “Selling Happiness”, “Scattered Thoughts”, “Kelly the Kitten’s Rough Day”, “Mom’s Clever Little Trick”, and “The Feels”.
As a kid growing up, one embarks on a journey of living life, being happy, finding humor in the world and explaining things. Cornucopia encompasses the weird explanations and thoughts from a growing kid’s perspective.
Middle-school students are at a weird and awkward point in their life as the training wheels have come off of them and they are given space to make choices and figure themselves out. They enjoy people, the world around them and visualizing their future endeavors. They are trying to find where they fit in the world. This makes Cornucopia a great collection as it encompasses living in the moment while dreaming about the future and making changes. Its different, moving aspects leave the reader in a place to make reflections and find deeper meaning in their own life.
This collection includes about 140 poems and is similar in tone to Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends. It expresses ideas and concerns of growing children as well as originative and witty stories.
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First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Bridget Renshaw
1 book2 followersBridget Renshaw spent her childhood in Allen, TX, writing poems, raps and stories from a very young age. She now spends her adult years doing the same thing in Los Angeles, CA.
Bridget received an MBA from Texas Tech University in 2008.
Bridget's first book, Cornucopia, is a group of quirky, fun and deep poems that she says "is an extension of her childhood heart". She is thrilled to be sharing this collection with the world.
Aside from writing, Bridget has other creative endeavors such as VoiceOver, improv and stand-up comedy. She is currently working on another book aimed at adults instead of children.
Bridget received an MBA from Texas Tech University in 2008.
Bridget's first book, Cornucopia, is a group of quirky, fun and deep poems that she says "is an extension of her childhood heart". She is thrilled to be sharing this collection with the world.
Aside from writing, Bridget has other creative endeavors such as VoiceOver, improv and stand-up comedy. She is currently working on another book aimed at adults instead of children.
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December 14, 2016
From the "People Who Should Apologize To the Trees For Killing Them To Make The Paper For This" Department. Or "Different verse, same as the first:"
Self published books are usually self published because they aren't very good. And all my alarm bells start ringing when I see nothing but 5* ratings on a self published book. Look, not even William Shakespeare gets 5* from everyone on Amazon, or Good Reads!
(And if the Bard of Avon self rated his stuff this way, I"d find it just as shameful, though more accurate!. But this author is no Shakespeare.)
Here we have classic bad writing--is this free verse or is "extravaganza" supposed to rhyme with "banana?" Amateurish art. Bad layout with multiple typefaces--some of which are very hard to read. Poor editing of things like punctuation.
Gentle Reader, let us take a moment to pause in abject horror of the Prince Charles Medal award winning poem entitled "I Want to Be Your Sweatpants."
Extra ROFTLMAO points for the author's friends who are comparing this to Shel Silverstein. Thank you for the entertainment. Certainly more than I got from the book.
Self published books are usually self published because they aren't very good. And all my alarm bells start ringing when I see nothing but 5* ratings on a self published book. Look, not even William Shakespeare gets 5* from everyone on Amazon, or Good Reads!
(And if the Bard of Avon self rated his stuff this way, I"d find it just as shameful, though more accurate!. But this author is no Shakespeare.)
Here we have classic bad writing--is this free verse or is "extravaganza" supposed to rhyme with "banana?" Amateurish art. Bad layout with multiple typefaces--some of which are very hard to read. Poor editing of things like punctuation.
Gentle Reader, let us take a moment to pause in abject horror of the Prince Charles Medal award winning poem entitled "I Want to Be Your Sweatpants."
Extra ROFTLMAO points for the author's friends who are comparing this to Shel Silverstein. Thank you for the entertainment. Certainly more than I got from the book.
July 25, 2015
Such a great and funny poetry book for all ages!!
I had a blast reading this book with my nephew!! I found myself stopping a lot to show my boyfriend some of the poems! We laughed so hard at some of these!! There are a lot of life lessons within these poems and some of them really reminded me of myself! I absolutely loved Kelly the Kittens Rough Day!! That is so me!! I highly recommend this book for kids as well as adults!! You will have a blast reading through his book!! :)
I had a blast reading this book with my nephew!! I found myself stopping a lot to show my boyfriend some of the poems! We laughed so hard at some of these!! There are a lot of life lessons within these poems and some of them really reminded me of myself! I absolutely loved Kelly the Kittens Rough Day!! That is so me!! I highly recommend this book for kids as well as adults!! You will have a blast reading through his book!! :)
June 2, 2015
I decided to download this book for my brother who is in middle school and is going through some changes in his life. He really liked this book because of the humor and how it related to his life. He actually told me that "Grounded" was one of his favorite poems because he could relate! The illustrations fit each poem well and represented the work as a whole. I read the book myself and it did actually remind me of Shel Silverstein's books that I used to read as a kid. Some of the poems were funny, some were happy and all were relatable. I just really enjoyed this one and it gave me a happy feeling! Would recommend this one to all ages!
October 13, 2015
Wow! What a wonderful collection of children's poems. This is a great book for youngsters, the subjects range from school to day to day situations to somewhat serious. The poems are funny yet poignant. Bridget Renshaw has written a great book that will be enjoyed by both kids and parents! I highly recommend buying it for the children in your life.
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