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Schmidt, Annie M. G.

A Pond Full of Ink

40 pp. | Eerdmans | March, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8028-5433-9 $16.00

(2) 4-6 Translated by David Colmer. Illustrated by Sieb Posthuma. A skinny, long-nosed poet fills his pen from the ink pond in his garden and offers the reader a selection of story poems featuring personalities old and young, human and animal, animate and inanimate. The wordplay is energetic; healthy handfuls of enjambment mitigate against dreary dum-di-dum; and the small narratives celebrate lateral thinking, community, and kindness.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2014