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This work asks what children pray for? A best friend? More space? A chance to wear daddy's hat? It aims to show that children pray for many different things.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 2 Up-Grimes has composed prayerful verses to give voice to the subjects in pastel drawings (done between 1985- 1992) by the African-American artist Brenda Joysmith, who paints a pretty world of healthy and well-groomed children. Youngsters are shown nestled close to their parents, bending their heads together with playmates, and lost in comtemplation or daydreaming. Grimes's prayers, on the other hand, express yearning (in direct dialogues with God) for more time with a single mother, any friend in a new neighborhood, work for a laid-off father, parents who do not fight, or a longer life for a grandmother. The situations are common enough, but here their poetic voices seem false and not well matched to the art. An earnest religious sensibility pervades. There Was a Place (McElderry, 1988) by Myra Cohn Livingston does a better job of evoking the feelings of children in painful family situations, while And God Bless Me, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Knopf, 1982), offers poems of gratitude. Walter Dean Myers's Brown Angels (1993), Ashley Bryan's Sing to the Sun (both HarperCollins, 1992), Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love (Crowell, 1978), and Grimes's own Something On My Mind (Dial, 1986) are all full of vibrant, truthful, and accessible poems about the experiences of African Americans and all young people.-Meg Stackpole, Rye Free Reading Room, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
With an emphasis on upbeat family relationships, the 13 poems in this collection call to mind the easy sentimentality evoked by greeting cards and Norman Rockwell paintings. According to the note at the beginning of the volume, Grimes wishes to ``share'' the ``prayers of her childhood'' when she ``talked to God about her hopes, her fears, her longings, and all the ordinary, everyday concerns that touched her life.'' Unfortunately, many of the poems are so coy and precious, and so adult in perspective, that the ``prayers'' often seem more like sermons directed at a young African American audience rather than offerings ``straight from the heart'' of a child, as the poet claims. ``I'm little now,'' says the child in the opening poem, but ``I believe I want to be / a credit to the human race.'' A child who has a book report due and a math test asks for ``a miracle from God'' but then says, ``Say what? / I should study for the test? / Read the book? Do my best?'' A young dancer asks God to be chosen for a solo `` `cause I'm good,'' and not ``just 'cause the color of my skin keeps me from fitting in.'' More successful than the poems, Joysmith's soft-toned, pastels of children and their families offer positive portraits of friends and families. Ages 7-11. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Thirteen subtly cadenced, accessible poems in an authentically childlike voice: messages confided to God as to a trusted friend. Each reveals a telling hope, ambition (``I want to be/a credit to the human race''; or, ``I don't want to get the chance/just `cause the color of my skin keeps me from fitting in...Give me the hardest step, I'll learn it./Make me number one, Lord. I'll earn it''), internal debate (``I need a miracle...I should study...?...Then You'll help me remember what I've learned?/Well that sounds fair''), fear, plea (``Lord,/Please give my Grandma one more year...she's been my mom and dad as far back as memory goes/and she knows the ins and outs of being free inside''), or joy. The implicit advice is frequently bracing, but gracefully delivered and never overbearing. Joysmith's sensitive, realistic pastel drawings of pensive young African-Americans at work and play are beautifully composed and quietly luminous; now in various private collections, they date from 1984 to 1992. A lovely, deeply felt book. (Poetry/Picture book. 6-12)