Jack Prelutsky’s The Dragons are Singing Tonight (illustrated by Peter Sís and published by Greenwillow, 1993) is a poetry books about dragon–pet dragons, lazy dragons, mechanical dragons, disconsolate dragons, baby dragons–dragons of all shapes and sizes. My sister read this book often to her five boys when they were little and they love it to this day. Using wonderful rythms and imagery, The Dragons are Singing Tonight tells the secrets of a dragon’s life. ...
(First let me say, this photo does not do justice to these illustrations because they are rich and gorgeous. ) A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans, 2008). is a picture book biography of the Imagist poet William Carlos Williams. Williams is considered one of the great American poets, and the pared down simplicity and strong images of his poems makes them accessible to children. Their very...
If you love the art of Georgia O’Keefe, you’ll love the picture book My Name is Georgia written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter (1998, Harcourt). I picked this picture book up in Santa Fe when I was visiting the Georgia O’Keefe museum there. It’s a very simple biography of the artist from her days as a girl to art school in Chicago and then New York: “At school, I painted my teacher’s ideas. But when school...
