Nikki Grimes Poems In The Attic

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Nikki grimes poems in the attic.

A 7 year old girl exploring in grandma s attic finds a box of poems her mother wrote as a child. Picturebook of poems theme. Also keeping the two stories separate on each page was a very interesting design challenge to solve. May 15 2015 a girl discovers her mother s childhood poems in her grandmother s attic and embarks on a journey through family history that inspires her own poetic tribute to her mother.

Son of promise child of hope 2008 which was a new york times bestseller and a naacp image award winner. Illustrated by elizabeth zunon release date. She attended rutgers university where she earned her ba in english and african languages studying with toni cade bambara nikki giovanni and miguel algarín among others grimes is the author of numerous award winning books for children and young adults including garvey s choice 2016 poems in the attic 2015 and barack obama. Grandma s attic is stacked with secrets.

And when she returns her mother s poems to the box in the attic she leaves her own poems too for someone else to find someday. On each lefthand page grimes chasing freedom words with wings has her narrator write in short bursts of free verse while on the right side pages the poems her mother wrote are in the japanese five line formtanka. Poems in the attic by nikki grimes. The poems act as a journal of sorts written by her mother when she was growing up.

Making sure that the mother looked like herself slowly aging from childhood to teenage hood to adult hood on the last page took a lot of little tweaks. Book description during a visit to her grandma s house a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic poems written by her mother when she was growing up. Moving poetry travel opening line sentence. Using free verse for the young girl s poems and tanka for her mother s master poet nikki grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child s need to hold onto special memories of home no matter where that place might be.

Her mother s family often moved around the united states and the world because her father was in the air force.