Out of Wonder Poems Celebrating Poet..., Kwame Alexander
Out of Wonder Poems Celebrating Poet..., Kwame Alexander
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Author: Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Ron Butler

Unabridged: 1 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2018

Synopsis

Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration, inviting the viewer to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.

About Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is a poet, a speaker, an educator, and a bestselling author of more than twenty books, including The Crossover, which was awarded the 2015 Newbery Medal. The cofounder of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program, he is also an advisory council member for LitWorld, a K-6 literacy organization dedicated to supporting the development of literacy in the world's most vulnerable communities. For more information, visit KwameAlexander.com.

About MacLeod Andrews

MacLeod Andrews was born and raised in Louisville, KY. He is a Company Member of Rising Phoenix Rep Theater Company, with whom he has performed in a number of productions Off-Broadway, as well as West Coast, New York, and World Premieres. He leads a double-life as an award winning audiobook narrator. Currently resides in Los Angeles.

About Ron Butler

Ron Butler is a Los Angeles based actor who works regularly as a commercial and animation voiceover artist and an audiobook narrator. A member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he has over a hundred film and television credits to his name and won an Independent Filmmaker Project Award for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.

About Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes is an artist whose work explores themes of family, relationships, hope, and faith. The first children's book she illustrated was Carole Boston Weatherford's Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, which was a Caldecott Honor Book and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and for which she won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award. She lives in Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on August 08, 2017

I’m in the minority here because I wasn’t thrilled by this collection so I’ll be as brief as I can. I am a fan of Kwame Alexander, who along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth wrote poems in response to some of their favorite poets, including Maya Angelou, Bashō, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cis......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 02, 2017

One of the most extraordinary poetry picture books I have ever encountered. The poems are incredible but the illustrations! Astonishingly beautiful and powerful! Any teacher, librarian, parent, bookseller or book lover who follows my reviews or who just stumbled across this one-trust me and obtain t......more

Goodreads review by Agnė on July 17, 2017

A lovely, inspiring collection of original poems celebrating twenty prominent poets: Maya Angelou, Bashō, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Chief Dan George, Nikki Giovanni, Terrance Hayes, Langston Hughes, Walter Dean Myers, Pablo Neruda......more

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