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Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems by Young People
A collection of poetry, written by children ages eight through eighteen, captures the feelings and emotions that are experienced while going through the ever-changing challenges of life and the process of growing up.
- GenresPoetry
124 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1996
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November 19, 2012
PB33: This is authored by kids themselves! I think that makes is all the more relatable and exciting for them. The colors of the illustrations are beautiful as well.
June 15, 2015
This is a book of poems by schoolchildren. The editor is the poet Sandford Lyne, who is also the author of 'Writing Poetry from the Inside Out', which I own and has proved very useful to me. Mr. Lyne did a lot of teaching poetry workshops to children, and this book is the result.
"My Friend
I remember a girl
named Jeanine.
She was one of my friends.
One day at school,
they told us she had cancer.
A week later they said
she was dead.
She's like a plant that
I forgot to water."
---Jessica Surrat, Grade 6
The poem above is one of the best poems in the book, in my opinion. As for the rest--- they are written by children as school assignments. There are a few that are flashes of brilliance, but many are more average. But that's OK too. Writing a poem from time to time is a basic life skill--- but we don't all need to be Robert Burns, Christina Rossetti or Hwang Jini.
I enjoyed this book very much. But it made me wonder. In schools they do teach writing poetry. Reading poets, not so much. Are we working towards a world in which poems are just a grade school assignment that we write before we grow out of childish things, and in which the only people who READ poems are the grade school teachers who made the assignment and are paid to read the results?
"My Friend
I remember a girl
named Jeanine.
She was one of my friends.
One day at school,
they told us she had cancer.
A week later they said
she was dead.
She's like a plant that
I forgot to water."
---Jessica Surrat, Grade 6
The poem above is one of the best poems in the book, in my opinion. As for the rest--- they are written by children as school assignments. There are a few that are flashes of brilliance, but many are more average. But that's OK too. Writing a poem from time to time is a basic life skill--- but we don't all need to be Robert Burns, Christina Rossetti or Hwang Jini.
I enjoyed this book very much. But it made me wonder. In schools they do teach writing poetry. Reading poets, not so much. Are we working towards a world in which poems are just a grade school assignment that we write before we grow out of childish things, and in which the only people who READ poems are the grade school teachers who made the assignment and are paid to read the results?
August 22, 2009
I read it this morning during my recent poetry binge.
Good grief this book is awesome.
Sandford Lyne compiles poems by grade-schoolers to high-schoolers that he collected during his workshops and educational outreach.
The poems are simple yet profoundly beautiful and telling about the joys and pains of young people.
Good grief this book is awesome.
Sandford Lyne compiles poems by grade-schoolers to high-schoolers that he collected during his workshops and educational outreach.
The poems are simple yet profoundly beautiful and telling about the joys and pains of young people.
April 28, 2012
I love that this is a compilation of student writing- attainable and inspiring for kids.
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