Comments on: Rhyming Picture Books: A Rhyme With Reason http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/ A place for people who love, read and write children's literature. Tue, 22 May 2012 02:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Tamson! http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-61986 Tamson! Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:49:18 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=594#comment-61986 Another, more consumer-oriented perspective on picture books and rhyme (very irreverent, so beware if you are easily offended). http://deadspin.com/5889376/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie-youre-fucked-10-tips-for-avoiding-terrible-childrens-books Another, more consumer-oriented perspective on picture books and rhyme (very irreverent, so beware if you are easily offended). http://deadspin.com/5889376/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie-youre-fucked-10-tips-for-avoiding-terrible-childrens-books

]]> By: Shawna http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-31282 Shawna Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:07:48 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=594#comment-31282 Personally, I like to write rhyming picture books because I like to read rhyming picture books. I'm always on the lookout for clever, rhyming books to read to my kids. Thanks for the recommendation to check out! Personally, I like to write rhyming picture books because I like to read rhyming picture books. I’m always on the lookout for clever, rhyming books to read to my kids. Thanks for the recommendation to check out!

]]> By: Amos "Papa" Bubbler II http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-28857 Amos "Papa" Bubbler II Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:31:09 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=594#comment-28857 Ode to the Mastery of Maggy Mahy >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( > There is really nothing to it; any fool can learn to do it; set the circumstance and tone and I'll begin to make a rhyme: chupacabra, llama, cow, orangutan or Eiffel Tower, and I'll crank out bloody kiddie books in half the stinking time: There were pickles in the spackle Daddy used today to tackle Mommy's honey-here's-to-do list and he started in the loo; When he saw the pickle spackle Daddy up and gave a cackle and with relish he began to fill the cracks around the room... We were scared but didn't panic, for the feel was so organic that the antics of our dad were momentarily forgot; Someone whispered the opunion that tomato and some onion and you'd smell a Whopper every time you went to use the pot! Or how about: a pouter was our Eddie, and a shouter, always pooching out his lip and slipping into louder mode; When we asked him "Wha'samatter?" Eddie'd air a lung and shatter all the glass and half the china in his Nana's curio! If a narrative is needed that's an easy thing indeed, it isn't hard to drag this drivel over eighty, ninety pages -- or a darkly comic novel that just like a Nabokov'll take 'em totally by storm and leave 'em laughing down the ages. When to rhyme with such perfection nets one letters of rejection it is scanty consolation but it pleases one to think, some- where's a shady den of tricks where shifty agents get their kicks by signing other authors' royalties with disappearing ink. >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( > Ode to the Mastery of Maggy Mahy

>( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >

There is really nothing to it; any fool can learn to do it;
set the circumstance and tone and I’ll begin to make a rhyme:
chupacabra, llama, cow, orangutan or Eiffel Tower,
and I’ll crank out bloody kiddie books in half the stinking time:

There were pickles in the spackle Daddy used today to tackle
Mommy’s honey-here’s-to-do list and he started in the loo;
When he saw the pickle spackle Daddy up and gave a cackle
and with relish he began to fill the cracks around the room…

We were scared but didn’t panic, for the feel was so organic
that the antics of our dad were momentarily forgot;
Someone whispered the opunion that tomato and some onion
and you’d smell a Whopper every time you went to use the pot!

Or how about: a pouter was our Eddie, and a shouter,
always pooching out his lip and slipping into louder mode;
When we asked him “Wha’samatter?” Eddie’d air a lung and shatter
all the glass and half the china in his Nana’s curio!

If a narrative is needed that’s an easy thing indeed, it
isn’t hard to drag this drivel over eighty, ninety pages
– or a darkly comic novel that just like a Nabokov’ll
take ‘em totally by storm and leave ‘em laughing down the ages.

When to rhyme with such perfection nets one letters of rejection
it is scanty consolation but it pleases one to think, some-
where’s a shady den of tricks where shifty agents get their kicks by
signing other authors’ royalties with disappearing ink.

>( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >( >

]]> By: Kristin Gray http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-12123 Kristin Gray Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:51 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=594#comment-12123 Mary, I haven't seen this one, but will have to check it out. Thanks! (I even love the illo.) Mary, I haven’t seen this one, but will have to check it out. Thanks! (I even love the illo.)

]]> By: Heather Kephart http://kidlit.com/2009/09/05/rhyming-picturebooks-a-rhyme-with-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-12118 Heather Kephart Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:20:06 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=594#comment-12118 Mary, I read Bubble Trouble a few months ago. Like you, I was blown away by the mastery of it. In fact, my jaw dropped. My eyes widened and stayed that way until my son drifted off after a couple of pages. I don't imagine it was out of boredom with the subject matter and delivery, but because the book was oh-so looong. (He's only three, however.) Do you have a post about writing picture books for adults vs. picture books for children? Some are true works of art, but leave my children flat. (The opposite can be true. My son loves Lisa Wheeler's UGLY PIE and I didn't expect him to.) Mary, I read Bubble Trouble a few months ago. Like you, I was blown away by the mastery of it. In fact, my jaw dropped. My eyes widened and stayed that way until my son drifted off after a couple of pages. I don’t imagine it was out of boredom with the subject matter and delivery, but because the book was oh-so looong. (He’s only three, however.)

Do you have a post about writing picture books for adults vs. picture books for children? Some are true works of art, but leave my children flat. (The opposite can be true. My son loves Lisa Wheeler’s UGLY PIE and I didn’t expect him to.)

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