Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meidell, Sherry

Titel

The Centaur

Ort / Verlag

Utah State University, University Libraries

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• First published in 1955, May Swensons The Centaur remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children.In images bright and brisk and nearly tangible, the poet re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer. We find ourselves, with her, straddling a long limber horse with . . . a few leaves for a tail, and pounding through the lovely dust along the path by the old canal. As her shape shifts from child to horse and back, we know exactly what she feels.Sherry Meidells water-color illustrations perfectly convey the wit and wisdom of May Swensons poem. These are playful, satisfying images full of vitality and imagination. Meidell handles the joy of poems fantasy and the joy of its occasional naughtiness with equal success