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Lee Bennett Hopkins has compiled another stunning poetry collection, this time on the art, artefact and anthropology of museums. Perfect for both art and natural history museums, as well as the classroom and library, these poems capture the wonder and amazement of mummies, medieval and ice age relics, dinosaur bones, sculptures, fine art, mobiles, ceramics, fossils, tapestries and dioramas. It features celebrated poets Lee Bennett Hopkins, Jane Yolen, Myra Cohn Livingston, Felice Hoffman, Marilyn Singer, Kristine O'Connell George, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, and more and illustrated by award-winning new talent, Stacey Dressen-McQueen.

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Hopkins selects 14 child-appealing poems centered on the allure of museums and their treasures. Most poems speculate about precious artifacts of the past, as in Suit of Armor, by Beverly McLoughland and The Moccasins, by Kristine O'Connell George. Others, such as Hopkins's titular poem and the apt closer, Museum Farewell, by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, focus on the experience of the museum as trove, itself precious and tinged with mystery. Dressen-McQueen's full-bleed, mixed-media treatments are uneven. Winning portrayals of wriggling, dancing multicultural children against pleasing color fields contrast with spreads in which pastiches of artifacts appear crowded and muddy. A delightful poem by Alice Schertle, O Trilobite, garners an intriguing treatment: Trilobites of varying sizes array colorfully against the blue-black of the deep sea. The illustration for Journey of the Woolly Mammoth seems stylistically unrelated to others, looking more like a sketch than a finished piece. Still, the poems are well chosen, the little field-trippers sweet and the topic rather thinly covered in the literature. Buy where needed. (Picture book/poetry. 5-9) (Kirkus Reviews)

Author Information

Lee Bennett Hopkins is the poet laureate to the younger set. He has published numerous books of poetry and edited countless celebrated poetry collections. He lives in Briarcliffe Manor, New York and in Cape Coral, Florida.

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