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Arthur's red fish, Leon, is sick. Arthur wants to help him get well, but he doesn't know what to do. His mommy advises him to give Leon a poem. Arthur asks his friend the baker, his grandparents, old Mahmoud, even his canary, what a poem is and each has an answer, but a different one! Is no one on earth able to explain to Arthur what a poem is? This can't be, because evidently it is just that--a poem--that will save Leon's life. Determined, Arthur decides that this is a mystery that must be solved!
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Arthur's red fish, Leon, is sick. Arthur wants to help him get well, but he doesn't know what to do. His mommy advises him to give Leon a poem. Arthur asks his friend the baker, his grandparents, old Mahmoud, even his canary, what a poem is and each has an answer, but a different one! Is no one on earth able to explain to Arthur what a poem is? This can't be, because evidently it is just that--a poem--that will save Leon's life. Determined, Arthur decides that this is a mystery that must be solved!

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French poet Siméon doesn't explain what poetry is: he portrays a poem in the making. Arthur's fish, Leon, languishes in his bowl. "Hurry," his mother says, sailing off to her tuba lesson, "give him a poem!" But Arthur doesn't know what a poem is, so he asks a charming collection of eccentric neighbors, each painted by Tallec in delicate pencil lines and wet strokes of vibrant color. "A poem, Arthur, is when you are in love and have the sky in your mouth," says Lolo, the bicycle repairman. Mahmoud, who "comes from the desert," says, "A poem is when you hear the heartbeat of a stone." "A poem," says Arthur's grandmother, "turns words around, upside down, and-suddenly!-the world is new." Tallec paints what Arthur sees as he listens: Lolo flying through the clouds with his girlfriend, Mahmoud kneeling close to a rock under the desert sun, a giant whale swimming upside-down through an inverted city street. When Arthur returns to Leon and strings together the answers he's received-"A poem is when you have the sky in your mouth"-they make, children will perceive, a perfectly beautiful poem. Exuding magic and unbridled creativity on every page, this is a book with the potential to heal more than just fish. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)

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A young boy is convinced that his pet fish will die of boredom, so his mother suggests that he give it a poem as she departs for her tuba lesson. This improbable premise leads into an equally improbable search for what exactly a poem is. The bright paintings do not relieve a dull book that is pitched above its audience. "A poem!? But what is a poem? Arthur goes to look in the kitchen cabinet.-Is there a poem in there?-Nooo po-eeeem, the noodles sigh in reply." The boy asks a neighbor, who says, "A poem is when you hear the heartbeat of a stone." The child asks his pet bird; it responds, "A poem is when words beat their wings. It is a song sung in a cage." The best way for children to understand what a poem is is to hear wonderful poetry. Skip this book and buy another copy of Caroline Kennedy's A Family of Poems (Hyperion, 2005).
—Kathleen WhalinCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592700677
  • Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
  • Publication date: 3/1/2007
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 630,054
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.30 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Jean-Pierre Siméon is a poet, novelist and dramatist. He is a professor of modern languages and literature who has worked prodigiously in the field of poetry. He has published regularly since 1984 and has received the Antonin Artaud Prize (1984), the Guillaime Apollinaire Prize (1994)and the Max Jacob Prize (2006). Olivier Tallec was born in Brittany in 1970. After graduating from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art graphique in Paris he worked in advertising as a graphic designer, after which he devoted himself to illustration. Since then he has done numerous illustrations for newspapers and magazines and has illustrated over 50 books for children.

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