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A Pocket of Time: The Poetic Childhood of Elizabeth Bishop
Contributor(s): Wilson, Rita (Author), Fitzgerald, Emma (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1771088095     ISBN-13: 9781771088091
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited
OUR PRICE:   $17.06  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Lifestyles - Farm & Ranch Life
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.3" W x 10.2" (0.80 lbs) 40 pages
 
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There are, always, so many things to wonder about.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) grew up to become a famous poet, but before that, she was a little girl who lived with her Gammie and Pa in Great Village, Nova Scotia. It was there that Bishop learned to walk, to read, to write, to sing hymns, and to catch bumblebees in foxglove flowers. It was there she first went to school and, when she was five, where her mother left and never returned.

Lovingly rendered, this visual and lyrical feast tells the story of Bishop's childhood days, inspired by Bishop's own poetry and prose and her time in Great Village, paired with eclectic collage-style artwork from illustrator Emma FitzGerald (EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street). A love letter to words, A Pocket of Time is a lesson for young readers in finding the poetry in everything.

Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Rita: - Rita Wilson is a writer, poet, teacher, mother, grandmother, and gardener who lives on the banks of the Caribou River in Nova Scotia. She's been published in: Saltscapes, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Cumberland Review; and received the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She first discovered Elizabeth Bishop at Bishop's grandparent's home in Great Village, and immediately imagined that house as the perfect framework to introduce Bishop and her words to children and parents.Bishop, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979) is considered one of the major poets of the twentieth century, with a famous eye for interesting and unexpected details. Many of her most renowned stories and poems are memories of Great Village, Nova Scotia, where she lived with her grandparents until she was taken away at the age of six and a half.