This delightful collection of poems offers children and the young at heart a refreshing, inventive look at the world from the well-known Dutch author, Annie Schmidt. The rollicking poems tell the stories of such intriguing characters as three elderly otters who long to go boating but find themselves biking instead, animated furniture that comes to life when no one is home, and Aunt Sue and Uncle Steve who nest up in a tree!
The poems in A Pond Full of Ink transform ordinary events and places into extraordinary adventures full of imagination, much like the work of Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky. Accompanying the poems is bold and expressive artwork that makes this book too charming to resist.---from the publisher
34 pages 978-0802854339 Ages 6-10
Keywords: poems, poetry, Dutch author, fun, humor, If You Liked Shel Silverstein, imagination, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old, 10 year old, If You Liked Jack Prelutsky
About the author Annie A.G. Schmidt (Dutch author): "Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-95) was regarded as the "Queen of Dutch Children's Literature" and her books have been an essential part of every Dutch childhood for the last fifty years. She trained as a librarian but burst onto the literary scene when the newspaper she was working for discovered her gift for children's verse. Having won numerous awards during her lifetime, including the1989 Hans Christian Andersen Award, Schmidt is now included in the Canon of Dutch History taught to all Dutch schoolchildren, alongside Spinoza, Anne Frank and Vincent van Gogh."---from Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
About the illustrator: Posthuma won the 2012 Gouden Penseel illustration prize for the best Dutch children's book for his illustrations, and no doubt provided further encouragement for bringing the book to a larger, international audience. Kirkus Reviews in their starred review appreciates the opportunity to enjoy Schmidt's posthumous collection, “Between the ravishingly well-crafted verse, with its tight meter and lithe rhyme, and Posthuma’s stark, richly layered mixed-media illustrations, readers can spend hours savoring each page.”
