Nonfiction Wednesday - Trying Out Haiku Again

I'm excited that Alyson Beecher, at Kid Lit Frenzy, is continuing her Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge for the fourth year in a row.

 

Thank you Margaret Simon for encouraging us to link up poetry this month using the hashtag #digipoetry.  Also, thank you Leigh Anne Eck for creating a button for us to use.

I wrote reviews several weeks ago for Nonfiction Wednesday in haiku to stay in the spirit of National Poetry Month.  This week, I write both my traditional review and then try out the haiku again.

 

 

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal

 

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I enjoyed this lovely book, written in the same vein as Over and Under the Snow, by Kate Messner, and wonderfully illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal. Kids will once again be captivated by what is busily thriving under the ground while we enjoy what's growing on top of it! I also love the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter, the legacy of respecting nature being passed on, and the circle of life shown by the passing of seasons.   Haiku Nana and I dream and plan, a garden awaits with a world below.     Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally Walker, illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss    2015-book, animals, nonfiction, nonfictionchallenge2015, picture-book     I never knew the real story behind what I thought was a fictional Winnie-the-Pooh. I'm happy to know there was an adorable baby orphan bear who was the real Winnie and was taken care of and loved by a veterinarian soldier in WWI. When the soldier, Harry Colebourn, realized Winnie could be hurt on the battlefield, he took her to the London Zoo where she stayed and met Christopher Robin. The affection they had for each other inspired the boy's father, A.A. Milne to write the beloved Pooh books. De I never knew the real story behind what I thought was a fictional Winnie-the-Pooh. I'm happy to know there was an adorable baby orphan bear who was the real Winnie and was taken care of and loved by a veterinarian soldier in WWI. When the soldier, Harry Colebourn, realized Winnie could be hurt on the battlefield, he took her to the London Zoo where she stayed and met Christopher Robin. The affection they had for each other inspired the boy's father, A.A. Milne to write the beloved Pooh books. Delightful illustrations accompany the story, and wonderful photographs adorn the end pages. Kids will be excited to learn the real story of Winnie-the-Pooh!   Haiku   An orphan bear is rescued by a kind soldier, Milne's stories are born.