Poems In The Attic By Nikki Grimes

The poems act as a journal of sorts written by her mother when she was growing up.

Poems in the attic by nikki grimes.

A young girl finds her mother s old poems in her grandmother s attic and reads about her mom s experiences moving around the world since her father was in the military. A book about discoveries this celebrates poetry and the quixotic life of a military family. Poems in the attic. Told in alternating free verse and tanka similar to haiku poems.

Free shipping on qualifying offers. And when she returns her mother s poems to the box in the attic she leaves her own poems too for someone else to find someday. This is the story of a young girl who discovers a box of poems in her grandma s attic. Reading the poems introduces the girl to the many interesting places her mother lived because of her father s military career.

A 7 year old girl exploring in grandma s attic finds a box of poems her mother wrote as a child. Poems in the attic. Poems in the attic author. On each lefthand page grimes chasing freedom words with wings has her narrator write in short bursts of free verse while on the right side pages the poems her mother wrote are in the japanese five line formtanka.

First published april 15 2015 booklist. The poems act as a journal of sorts written by her mother when she was growing up. Using free verse for the young girl s poems and tanka for her mother s master poet nikki grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child s need to hold onto special memories of home no matter where that place might be. During a visit to her grandma s house a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic poems written by her mother when she was growing up.

Lee low 19 95 9781620140277. Grandma s attic is stacked with secrets. Moving poetry travel opening line sentence. Texas bluebonnet award nominee book poems in the attic by nikki grimes illustrations by elizabeth zunon read by mercedes jasso edited by maria del carmen zuniga.