The Drowsy Hours: Poems for Bedtime
HarperCollins, June, 2002.
Picture Book, 40 pages.
ISBN: 0688166032
Ages 3 and up
In our busy stress-filled world, adults often have little
time and patience for poetry. But children, as yet
untouched by the impossibility of doing it all, are still
open to the rhythm and emotion of poetry. Bedtime,
which can become an emotional tug of war, is one of the
best times to share poetry with a child. The Drowsy
Hours is a collection of poems from our most admired
poets: Carl Sandburg, Walter De La Mare, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Eugene Field and Vachel Lindsay. Combined
with the drowsy, flowing rhythms of the poems are the
fantasy-filled illustrations of Peter Malone. His illustrations
are so filled with drama and magic that a child will carry
their images along with the verbal images of the poetry
into peaceful slumber and happy dreams. The Drowsy
Hours is definitely a book that will leave a child open
to his own happy dreams and fantasies.
-Sarah Reaves White
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This review was published in the December-January, 2003 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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