Stone Bench in an Empty Park

Rating:
Summary: A Beautiful, Touching book
Review: "Ice-cream wrappers bloom

In overflowing baskets

Summer in the Park"

Jane Yolen

This is a "haiku" from the book. Each poem is matched with a memorable picture of the city. The pictures are of everyday scenes and the haiku are easy to read, yet the effect is haunting. Although the book is only 40 pages long, a person could spend hours reading and looking at the pictures.

Children and parents and teachers will read this book over and over.

Rating:
Summary: Haiku becomes new
Review: Words on paper glow Photographs illumine new worlds Haiku becomes real.