TOUR AMERICA - Kirkus Reviews
by Diane Siebert & illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, Siebert once again mines her knowledge of the United States, gained during a ten-year motorcycle odyssey with her husband, to produce poems that celebrate sites famous and lesser known.
Train Song by Diane Siebert - Publishers Weekly
From New Hampshire's formidable Mount Washington to San Francisco's spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, the scenic treasures of the United States are brilliantly captured in this artistic tour de force. Award-winning poet Diane Seibert's inventive poems are perfectly paired with Caldecott Honor recipient Stephen Johnson's compelling imagery. Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by Diane ...
From the Washington Monument to Mount Saint Helens, Siebert's latest poetry collection celebrates sights and structures unique to the United States. Each spread focuses on a state, pairing a poem with arresting, mixed-media artwork. RHYOLITE - Kirkus Reviews
Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by Diane Siebert and Stephen T. Johnson In her author’s note, Diane Siebert explains the genesis of the poems in this. Children's book author and poet. Siebert once again mines her knowledge of the United States, gained during a ten-year motorcycle odyssey with her husband, to produce poems that celebrate sites famous and lesser known. The combination of familiar sights, like the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore, with less celebrated landmarks such as Lucy the Elephant (found in N.J.), helps to give the book a fresh appeal, as do the.
Heartland. Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by: Diane Siebert (2006) -Poetry Tour America takes the reader, as you would expect, to some of the best spots in the United States. From the east to the west coast and many places in between the author gives vivid poetic descriptions of the landscape and manmade wonders that America has to offer.
Follow Diane Siebert and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Diane Siebert Author Page. The poems celebrate the man-made (the Las Vegas strip; Bemidji, Minnesota's giant Paul Bunyon statues) as well as natural beauty, such as Alaska's northern lights ("sweet sparks of wonder"). With a few exceptions, Siebert writes mostly in rhyming couplets, and the relentlessly bouncy meter sometimes distracts from the more contemplative.
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Siebert's poems are simple and accessible, as with "Badlands": "face of grasslands left behind / weathered / wrinkled / creased / & lined." Many are also humorous; "Las Vegas" concludes.
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A rural mystery in an ephemeral western mining town is brought to light in Rhyolite: The True Story of a Ghost Town, while a vast natural panorama is revealed in Siebert's highly praised Tour America: A Journey through Poems and Art. In Mojave, one of Siebert's early works, she teams with Minor to evokes a stark yet beautiful desert ecosystem. Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by Siebert, Diane
From New Hampshire's formidable Mount Washington to San Francisco's spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, the scenic treasures of the United States are brilliantly captured in this artistic tour de. 'Tour America' - The New York Times Siebert has written numerous children's books about her experiences, and in TOUR AMERICA: A JOURNEY THROUGH POEMS AND ART (Chronicle, $17.95, ages 8 and up), she teams with Stephen T. Johnson, an.Diane Seibert PhD, FAANP, FAAN - USUHS In her author’s note, Diane Siebert explains the genesis of the poems in this read more 13 Total Resources 3 Awards 2 State Lists Book Resume View Text Complexity Discover Like Books.Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art - Goodreads Siebert, Diane. (1981, 1990). Train Song. Illustrated by Mike Wimmer New York: HarperTrophy. Closing line: “Hear the railroad lullaby.” The story, a poem by Diane Siebert, incorporates loads of information about trains, what they carry, who rides them, and who tends them. Her poem is a joyful, musical ode to trains. Just as her words. Diane Siebert and her husband left their jobs, sold their possessions, and set out on an incredible ten-year journey around the United States (and some of. The career of award-winning author Diane Siebert has been inspired by an amazing ten-year trip she and her husband took during the 1970s. As she explained in an interview for the Chronicle Books Web site, "In 1971, my husband and I hatched a plan: we would sell whatever possessions we could, buy two motorcycles, and spend the summer seeing America.
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Dr. Diane Seibert is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Daniel K. Inouye, Graduate School of Nursing. In addition to her formal position, she co-chairs the University Interprofessional Education and Practice Taskforce and is the GSN representative to the University Standing Committee on Strategic Performance and Resourcing.