Tanka-poetry reviews

Thanks to Lark Writes for giving me the inspiration to write short, poetic book reviews. Hers are called 'Haiku Reviews.' I'll make mine a little longer and call them tanka-poetry reviews. Similar to haikus, tanka poems are short, using only 31-syllables in the cadence pattern of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7. I'm catching up here on past-due reviews.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Bloom (Delacorte, 1970)

My daughter, Rita,

loved this book when she was young.

Margaret writes to

God on growing-up issues,

 though she's not sure he exists.

 

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Neighborly Words of Wisdom from Mr. Rogers (With Movie Tie-in) by Fred Rogers (Penguin Books, 2019)

This book starts with Tom

Junod's Esquire piece, "Can You

Say...Hero?" about

meeting Fred Rogers, forming

a lifelong, inspired friendship.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 1986)

When my daughter learned

I finally read this book,

she commented that

it is the favorite book

of 5th graders everywhere.

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

Deputy Sheriff,

Constance Kopp and her sisters

in a fiery romp.

The third book in the series

which is based on real people.

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuah (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014)

Ten years before Brown 

vs. B.O.E, Sylvia

Mendez and her family

desegregated

schools in California.

Hinds' Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard (Blackstone Audio, first published in 1955)

An allegory

dramatizing the journey

people take before

they can live in "high places,"

a child of the good shepherd.

Quite an assortment and variety of books that seem incongruent, but they match my reading mood of late.

-Anne