This book review first appeared in the March 2017 issue of Life in Québec Magazine.
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Title: All the World A Poem
Author: Gilles Tibo
Illustrator: Manon Gauthier
ISBN:
Price: $18.95
Publisher: Pajama Press
Review by Lorie Pierce
This is a picture book about the wonder of poetry. It is also a whimsically illustrated invitation for children to go out and extract poetry from the world around them.
The author, Gilles Tibo, asks the reader to take a “journey towards the endless country of verses yet to come.” By describing how a poem looks and feels, he shows how to recognize poetry in everyday objects and events: the moon in the night sky, a flower that blooms in the rain, a big pier jutting out into the ocean.
Not only does this book show how reading a poem makes one feel, it explores the act of creating poetry. How does it feel to create a poem, to read it out loud and share it with a friend?
This is all part of the adventure of All the World A Poem, which takes readers a step beyond the mere enjoyment of the printed word.
Québec author Gilles Tibo has created more than 150 books. In 2009, a film was made based on his popular Noémie series.
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