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Song for a summer night : a lullaby
\"As night falls on a soft summer evening, children are drawn out of their houses by the sights and sounds of the world after dark\"--Front jacket flap.
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Noisy poems for a busy day
\"Captures adventures big and small in a child's day from sunup to sundown\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Eenie, meenie, Manitoba
This book contains some reworked traditional rhymes and some original poems. \"To Be or Not to Be\" is an updated version of \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor\" with modern occupations added and all possible offensive stereotypes expunged. \"Nova Scotia Lobster\" is the skipping rhyme \"Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear\" in crustaceans clothing. Others are original, and, like the title poem, many contain Canadian place names. Some of these poems read well, but Heidbreder's sense of rhythm is often just a bit off the beat. As a result, some poems lurch rather than skip, and are not easy to read aloud. This is too bad because children like a strong, reliable rhythm in their poetry.
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Eenie, meenie, Manitoba
[Robert Heidbreder] walks the aesthetic/pedagogical tightrope -- as if an imaginative experience were only justified by producing quantifiable factual knowledge. Besides trying to teach us about Canada, he suggests activities for each verse, such as skipping or ball - bouncing games. Fine, and several poem - activities are successful: \"Inken Tinken\"'s reference to northern Canadian wildlife and geography charms because of the comedy of the images and sounds; \"Tuktoyaktuk\" is rhythmically delightful; \"Peppermint Mouse\" is wonderfully surreal, while a clapping activity and a vocabulary lesson in spices and animals are happily peripheral to the appeal of the verse. However, Heidbreder sometimes deflates the fun with one of his lessons: \"Daisy Faye\" is a barrage from the lexicon of flora; \"Simmy's Salmon\" classifies types of salmon at the expense of a more imaginative narrative; and \"Nova Scotia Lobster\" is only a geography and physical fitness drill. Too often the motive for metaphor is factual knowledge.
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Drumheller Dinosaur Dance
Subject Headings: Dinosaurs - Juvenile fiction. Dance - Juvenile fiction. Drumheller (Alta) - Juvenile fiction. The artwork by [Bill Slavin] and [Esperanca Melo] is sheer delight. These double-page spreads are rendered in acrylics on gessoed paper and give life to the rhyming text as the bones come together to form wild dancing skeletons, Richly coloured backgrounds of deep blues, oranges, rusts and reds are a nice contrast to the white curving text and the mauve coloured dancing bones. Add exuberant, joyful children to the party, and the results are magical illustrations.
Magazine Article
See Saw Saskatchewan: More Playful Poems From Coast to Coast
It is no surprise that [Robert Heidbreder] is also a primary teacher. Through his tongue rolling rhymes, accompanied by [Scot Ritchie]'s equally imaginative and comic images, young children trek from coast to coast to coast while having pure fun with light-hearted poetic language. Readers meet Rocky Mountain Mountain Goats, Poler Polar Bear, Boss Ross Albatross, Eager Beaver Antoinette, Hester Jester Chesterfield, and Jake Jake Garter Snake. They pan for (fool's) gold, lay down all the GST they can for a Nanaimo bar, catch Little Monty Mountie's noisy musical ride, quit ravin' about ice and snow and follow the Snowbirds south, and on and on they travel.
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I wished for a unicorn
So starts the adventure of a bored child who only has to wish some adventure into her life. When her scruffy unicorn arrives with his bone, they set off for a day of glorious adventure. After they storm a castle and defeat a dragon and an evil wizard, they tire themselves out digging for buried treasure. After a nap, the child awakens to find only her dog asleep on the lawn.
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Python play & other recipes for fun
Vancouver poet Robert Heidbreder's imagination and gift for rhythm are both on display in his latest picture book and collection of poems. On the first page of I Wished for a Unicorn, a young girl stands with her eyes shut tight and her fingers crossed: \"I wished for a unicorn. / I wished so hard / That I found a unicorn / In my backyard.\" Your little reader will notice right away, however, that this is a rather odd-looking unicorn, with its wagging tail, a bone in its mouth and missing horn.
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I wished for a unicorn
Vancouver poet Robert Heidbreder's imagination and gift for rhythm are both on display in his latest picture book and collection of poems. On the first page of I Wished for a Unicorn, a young girl stands with her eyes shut tight and her fingers crossed: \"I wished for a unicorn. / I wished so hard / That I found a unicorn / In my backyard.\" Your little reader will notice right away, however, that this is a rather odd-looking unicorn, with its wagging tail, a bone in its mouth and missing horn.
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