Words with Wings and Magic Things
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Mar 18, 2025
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From award-winning author Matthew Burgess and Caldecott medalist Doug Salati comes a spellbinding collection of poems for young readers that celebrates the power of words to awaken the imagination and alchemize the everyday. A gorgeous gift book for fans of Shel Silverstein with seven die-cut spreads throughout.
Beyond the doorway of the first page of this collection awaits a dragon piñata, an alligator on the A train, a hungry yeti, an ice cream dream, jetpack sneakers, midnight firelight, a gray day, a plump tomato, a serious question and so much more. Whether you're feeling blue, lemon yellow or Day-Glo green, this inviting and magical book of poems takes young readers on an uplifting journey through everyday moments, moods and experiences, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. With enchanting illustrations throughout and seven die-cut portals that open into the realms of Welcome, Wonder, Wild, Weee!, Whoops & Wallops, Windows and Whispers & Well Wishes, Words With Wings and Magic Things explores how words can awaken us to a world of wonder and possibility. Step inside . . . and take flight!
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Burgess offers fantastical fragments and affirming messages throughout this rich trove of impish verse. In digitally colored pencil drawings, some stylistically reminiscent of Maurice Sendak's in A Hole Is to Dig, Caldecott Medalist Salati offers slyly understated vignettes of children dancing, dreaming, encountering creatures, and more. Each of the work's seven sections (including "Welcome," "Wonders," and "Wild") is set off with gracefully realized full-color spreads. In one, a city street's rats and pigeons become circus performers; in another, a fish-interested child begins to swim alongside a menagerie of sea life. Tracing themes of autonomy, fantasy, flight, and perception, this crisply exploratory collection never loses its essential playfulness: "To reach the place of things unseen,/ words can be your trampoline." Characters are portrayed with various abilities, body types, and skin tones. Ages 5–9.
