A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Hardcover)

from sageness

Beautiful Caldecott winning children's book about William Carlos Williams' life and poetry. Some of the art is really stunning. Best for kids old enough to examine all the parts of a page, as the pages have a lot of linear and nonlinear content. The only wish I have is that it were a few pages lo...

from allawishus

This is a really gorgeous picture book biography; it's wonderfulness lies chiefly in it's evocative and engaging illustrations - as a biography it's utility is fairly limited. It's a bare bones outline of William Carlos Williams' life. It suceeds in presenting him as a person who looked at ordina...

from JodiEasley

This is a biography of William Williams, and how is childhood passion and love of poetry stuck with him is entire life. This book would be used as double duty to introduce a poetry unit or to introduce a type of biography. As a teacher, I like the perspective this story introduces to children abo...

from saraluisa

As you open this book you will find an imediate collection of poems by WCW that have eluded many readers for many years (e,g, "So much depends on a red wheelbarrow"), and only a few pages later we are thrust into the mind of WCW and able to understand--through the magic of a children's picture bo...

from jwesley

A River of Words is a picture book biography about the life and poetry of Williams Carlos Williams. Williams loved to write, finding his inspiration from nature and listening to poems read by his teacher. Although he continued to pursue writing, he became a doctor to earn money. This story does w...