Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends

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Told through poetic letters, this inventive collaboration from Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet reveals the everyday conversations between big and little objects in our ecosystem. Delightful!

Dear Sky,

Hello! It's me, Bubble!

I'm here!

Someone's breathed me

awake!

What is it like to be little What is it like to be big

Award-winning poet Joyce Sidman explores both in this lyrical picture book. Whether its a small bubble writing to the enormous sky, or a mighty oak reassuring its tiny acorn, these surprising and delightful poems examine how were all connectedin both big and small ways. Brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott artist Melissa Sweet, Dear Acorn (Love, Oak) will have readers dreaming up messages of their own to this big, beautiful world.

Author Bio

The Newbery Honor winnerand Sibert Medalist Joyce Sidman is todays foremost nature poet for children.Accolades for her books include two Caldecott Honors, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, the Claudia Lewis Award, and many stars and best books lists.For her award-winning body of work, she won the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. Visit joycesidman.com Melissa Sweet is the Caldecott Honorwinning illustrator of many fine childrens books including Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White, winner of the NCTEOrbis Pictus Award;Balloons over Broadway, a Sibert Medal winner; and The Right Word and A River of Words, both Caldecott Honor Books. Reviewers have described her unique mixed-media illustrations as exuberant, outstanding, and a creative delight. Melissa lives on the beautiful coast of Maine. In addition to writing and painting, she enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. For more information about Melissa and her work, visit her online at melissasweet.net.