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AUGUST 12, 2011

Book Review: Lemonade and Other Poems

Lemonade, and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka and Illustrated by Nancy Doniger

Lemonade cover If you like poetry or artistically arranged words, check out this book! Each poem is composed using a single word as a starting point. On the first page dedicated to the poem, the poem is artistically arranged. Sometimes it is difficult to read what the poem actually is on this page. However, do not despair! There is a second page dedicated to each poem where the poem is written in stanza form that anyone (even me) can read.

This would also be a fun book to take a look at if you write poetry yourself. After reading the poems in this book, you could challenge yourself to write poems springing from one word.

Just to give you a taste of Lemonade, here is the poem mentioned in the title of the book:

lemonade

made

one

and

added

one

lemon

load

and

one

mom

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posted by Rene, Evergreen Library

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Comments

bubblez said, on Aug. 13 at 8:24AM
That confuzzles me....

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Jenna said, on Aug. 13 at 8:25AM
I don't get the poem. Is that what's confusing, Bubblez?

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Rene said, on Aug. 18 at 11:14AM
It is a very visual poetry book which is hard to convey on the blog. All the words in this poem "Lemonade" are made from the word lemonade. Seeing how it is laid out visually in the book though is really the best!

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Fredrickson said, on Jun. 1 at 4:21AM
I love poetry, and alyaws wish I had more time to sit, be quiet, and just read Great poem!.-= Jonathanb4s last blog ..The one where I got told off by another parent =-.Like or Dislike: 0