Seize Your Copy Hailstones And Halibut Bones Articulated By Mary ONeill Compiled As Digital Version

the illustrations, probably a bit more than the poems, but that's me, Never read the older version, but the artist chosen for this edition was perfect, Each poem is about a color, Need to read to appreciate, . . but I do agree with other reviewers about the "red" Indian, It stopped me so I lost the flow, This was given to me by friends of my parents when I was very small, It seemed like a fuddyduddy book, but I absolutely loved it, I don't think I was reading yet, or had just started, so my mother read it with me, I'm happy to see it's a classic and still around, I can still see some of the illustrations in my mind's eye even though I haven't opened the book inyears.
A nice and simple poetry book of colours, Beautiful sensory color poems. A classic. I came across this book in one of our school classrooms and just fell in love with it, The second edition has gorgeous illustrations by John Wallner I dont know what the ones in the original edition were like.
Each poem is about a color, and theyre all in the same, simple, kidfriendly form, but they all have at least one or two beautifully synesthetic surprises in them.
Another Leonard Weisgard illustrated book I picked this to get from the library out of his illustrated work simply on title alone.
The poem by O'Neill definitely has some nice moments unfortunately it's dated and tells us that Indians are Red and Babies are Pink.
But otherwise sweet and even goes beyond the basic iamges that you might expect in many poems about colors for children: "You can smell blue / In many a thing Gentian and larkspur / Forgetmenots, too.
/ And if you listen / You can hear blue / In wind over water / And wherever flax blooms / And when evening steps into / Lonely rooms.
/ Cold is blue Flame shot from a welding torch / Is, too Hot, wild, screaming, blistering Blue" Hailstones And Halibut Bones, Mary O'Neill's renownedwork of poetry about the colors of the spectrum, has become a modern children's classic.
Leonard Weisgard's lovely illustrations are

a perfect accompaniment to the poems, Beautiful in both poetry and illustrations!

On page, when talking about the color blue, I thought it was interesting that blue could be either cold or hot like welding torch flame.
I liked some of the the other things she said about black, gray, and red,

When I was little, I used to say that red was my favorite color, but I also like blue with it.
And now I cant really decide! Theres not a color I dont like, The poems in this book are absolutely beautiful, I loved reading it when I was a child and I even brought it to school once just so that my classmates could enjoy the poetry.
And I wasat the time,
I can't wait to have it again since I lost it many years ago, so I can read it again and again, and to my children when the day comes.
This book is fantastic for teaching poetry, I love it. It's good for description, metaphor,senses, etc, and my students have really enjoyed reading the short poems, Beautiful verses creating lovely images in a single hue, This is a wonderful going to bed book for my son, it's extremely soothing, Unfortunately it puts my mom to sleep faster than it does him, so she can't use it, I however can read it over and over,

The title poem:

What is White
White is a Dove
And lily of the valley
And a puddle of milk
Spilled in an alley
A ship's sail
A kite's tail
A wedding veil
Hailstones and
Halibut bones
And some people's
Telephones.

The hottest and most blinding light
Is white,
And breath is white
When you blow it out on a frosty night,
White is the shining absence of all color
Then absence is white
Out of touch
Out of sight.


White is marshmallow
And vanilla ice cream
And the part you can't remember
In a dream.

White is the sound
Of a light foot walking
White is a pair of
Whispers talking.

White is the beautiful
Broken lace
Of snowflakes falling
On your face,
You can smell white
In a country room
Toward the end of May
In the cherry bloom.



My favorite poem is Black, You'll have to get the book to read it!



Through the recommendations of sitelinkMemoria Press in their curriculum package it is amazing what is possible to provide in a preschool or sitelinkJunior Kindergarten experience and Id say the bulk of the best of it is within the literature and poetry section.
Since there areweeks andliterature selections, let me start with telling you about the poetry because of this, there is really only three.
Two, however that you use on a regular basis throughout the year of curriculum in the lesson plans, The third doubles one week for both literature and poetry,

A key element to the Jr, K curriculum, the music and poetry offers exposure to enduring childhood classics and satisfies the childs intrinsic interest in story and song.
The interesting and rich language of the music and poetry selections yes, even simple Mother Goose Rhymes helps the child develop a taste for and comfort with the beautiful, stylistic language ubiquitous in the classical education to come.
Fortunately, no persuasion or explanation is necessary the Jr, K student loves to rhyme and sing!

sitelinkThe main book of poetry in Jr.
K is the Mother Goose, sitelinkAs I said in my opening post, early in the beta stage we started with sitelinkTomie dePaolas Mother Goose which was fine, but were later switched to sitelinkRichard Scarrys Best Mother Goose Ever which is fabulous.
I love Richard Scarry, we love Richard Scarry in our house, And while it is true that for the Mother Goose portion you could possibly use any of your favorite Mother Goose illustrated works, this is my favorite of all the others that we have on our shelves.

Fifty favorite and not so wellknown nursery rhymes are brought to vibrant life by Richard Scarry whose bears, pigs, cats, and rabbits perfectly illustrate these familiar verses.
From Old Mother Hubbard to Jack Sprat, this oversize book depicts these most classic characters in bright, funny, colorful detail.

Mother Goose is a perfect foundation for any child's library, and Richard Scarry is the ideal illustrator to make these first poems accessible and fun.

The book itself is huge and wonderfully durable, Richard Scarry is a staple in my household and his characters are very familiar to my children, Having larger illustrations to act out Mother Goose rhymes is just icing on the cake, In the book there is from one to a few more rhymes per page and there is plenty to look at and observe.

Often we are to be found having read over our rhyme for the day, discussed it via the poetry guidelines in the lesson plans and then my daughter will beg to go back and read a rhyme for the week before or the week before that.
I read through the rhymes about three times, and while she doesnt have these memorized she knows what the main concept is and is delighted in their silliness and always wants more.
Quite a few times Ive come to find her in our library just pouring over the book and flipping the pages going on.
While she cannot read on her own yet, she can remember the ones we have read and they provide her much enjoyment.

Overall in my opinion there could not be a better choice for Mother Goose rhymes than the Richard Scarry version, but then I adore his characters so Im biased anyhow.
Oh, and its technically a sitelinkGolden Book, so thats another point in the plus column,
sitelinkThe other poetry book we have is completely new to me and the concepts learned here are more than just on poetry.
Its all about color. sitelinkHailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary ONeill is a different kind of book for my experience, but I like it and I like it alot.
It was a little confusing when I was purchasing my copy, because everywhere I look online there is a different cover image shown, but when my copy arrived it was a thin paperback that matches the images in the Memoria Press collages.
Illustrated by John Wallner, Hailstones and Halibut Bones is a book for the imagination to soar, Text copyrightand illustration copyrightthis book has been around and there is good reason why it is still in publication.
The imagery is lovely and flows beautifully, In the study of poetry often it seems I find some people love certain poets that I think are bizarre, but Mary ONeills poetry is attractive to the eyes and ears and I think a great influence on a possible project to try in the future one day of our own in a midst of color or another topic.

Now touching back on the lesson plans, we have a page with poetry guidelines in the appendix, These include discussion points for before you read, during your reading, and after you read as well, Through these bullet points a poem can be brought even more to life and taken further and just beginning the educational adventure.
With this kind of introduction on a Jr, K level I am intrigued and excited for what we may expect in years to come,
Up to this point we have covered the sitelinklesson plans, sitelinkphonics, sitelinkmath and now poetry.
Ah, and in case I have confused you by mentioning a third poetry portion, this I mean by one weeks double choice where the literature also fits for the poetry section in Tomie dePaolas sitelinkThe Song of  Francis.

Other things I would love to tell you about include literature, music and crafts, . . Guess whats next

sitelinkPart I Lesson Plans
sitelinkPart II Phonics 
sitelinkPart III Math
Part IV Poetry

This post is scheduled: sitelink com/blog/ My mom send me down to her shelves to grab some books for Ezra and I found this! I haven't seen it in ages but just seeing the cover brought back a flood of memories.
This was my FAVORITE poetry book, I read it over and over, I loved the illustrations too! These are wonderful children's poems they are easy to read aloud, the metaphors are simple easy to understand, and they all rhyme.
Who gets nonrhyming poetry as a kid I remember my favorite poem was White, I think now it's Purple,

sample
Asters are purple,
There's purple ink,
Purple's more popular
Than you think,
It's sort of a great
Grandmother to pink,



or maybe Pink, . .
sample
If you stand in an orchard
In the middle of Spring
And you don't make a sound
You can hear pink sing,
.
. .

They are all great, Love the illustrations, the poetry not so much, As several other readers pointed out, the use of "red Indian" was startling and interrupted the flow, These poems were okay except for using "an Indian" as an example of the color Red, C'mon O'Neill, even leaving political correctness aside Native Americans are not actually carmine, They didn't do much for me, but I see many people really liked them, so ymmv,

I had thereissue with illustrations by John Wallner, which are completely different from the original, I think the original Leonard Weisgard illustrations did a better job of depicting the colors,



Also, Wallner, you need to be a bit more mindful, because some of these look a little.
. . wrong.

I like that the author introduces her book by letting readers know this is a collection of her personal feelings, impressions and ideas about colors.
A book like this can inspire young readers and writers to appreciate the power of their own imaginations, My aunt, a poet herself, gave me this book with the following personal note written inside the cover: A gift of color For your darkest night Or your coldest day or just to make a fine day brighter.
This special book uses words to paint pictures and celebrate our colorful world, It uses words to build up, not tear apart, I feel thankful for books like these for they do make the day brighter, We really enjoyed this book, luckily we bought a copy with the original illustrations which are wonderful and fit perfectly with the book.
Two or three pages on each colour tell you the obviousthings that are that colour, and the not so obviousfeelings, sounds and experiences.
Although the poetry isn't wonderful, we enjoyed the thoughts behind the words and look forward to making some of our own.
Lovely, creative book. .