I would like to introduce you to a new children’s book The Red Ear Blows Its Nose by Robert Schechter Illustrated by S. Federico Poems For Children And Others I received in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links inside this post I will make a small percentage from the products you purchase.
When Charlie was #Homeschooling full time one of the classes I taught Charlie was #Poetry. I wish I had The Red Ear Blows Its Nose when Charlie was in school because he would have enjoyed the Poems a lot. Just as David and I did.
There is 99 Poems in The Red Ear Blows Its Nose which will keep you reading for a while. I love how the Author has included Poems about ourselves which cause us to sit and think. There is a Poem about a Horse my niece enjoyed a lot. I can’t wait to check out other books by Robert Schechter and I hope you do as well.
About the book:
is “a dazzling tour de force” (Kenn Nesbitt). Often hilarious, always thoughtful, this debut collection from award-winning poet Robert Schechter proves that he is “clearly one of the most accomplished poets writing for children today” (Valerie Bloom MBE).
Complemented by S. Federico’s charming illustrations, The Red Ear Blows Its Nose will delight both children and adults alike, and is destined to become a classic, standing alongside A Child’s Garden of Verses, Now We Are Six, and Where the Sidewalk Ends on children’s and library bookshelves for years to come.
PRAISE FOR THE RED EAR BLOWS ITS NOSE:
Short, punchy, and clever poems, as if Shel Silverstein and Ogden Nash had a baby. Some are only two lines long. My favorite: “When livestock salesmen cannot sleep, / do they lie in bed discounting sheep?” Wow!
–Jane Yolen, author of the How Do Dinosaurs books
What a splendid collection of poetry. Here are poems that fizz with imagination, wisdom, and an infectious exuberance at the sheer wonder of words. Beautifully crafted and terrifically funny, this is a book for children (and grown-ups) to return to again and again.
–Kate Wakeling, winner, 2017 CLiPPA (UK)
You’ll feel like a “cool in-the-know one” when you read Robert Schechter’s clever collection of poems. This book will open your mind up to a world where foxes cartwheel through trombones, a horse might choose to moo, and you can dive into a lake filled with yellow puffs of popcorn. Children who are reading (and thinking) beyond their age level will love it; you will, too. If you’re a fan of John Ciardi and Richard Wilbur and X. J. Kennedy, or Jack Prelutsky and J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt, you’ll want to add Robert Schechter to your list of favorite poets!
–Janet Wong, winner of the 2021 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children
The Red Ear Blows Its Nose is a dazzling tour de force of ingenious poems that sparkle with Schechter’s witty, wonderful wordplay. Read this book. Your brain will thank you. Mine did.
–Kenn Nesbitt, former Children’s Poet Laureate (2013-15)
Robert Schechter’s poems sing with irrepressible joy. His humor, wit, and verbal dexterity make The Red Ear Blows Its Nose a book that both children and adults will want to read over and over and over again. He is clearly one of the most accomplished poets writing for children today.
–Valerie Bloom MBE, winner, 2022 CLiPPA (UK)
Meet the Author:
Robert Schechter writes poetry that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. His children’s poems appear in such places as Highlights for Children, High Five, Highlights HELLO, Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, the School Magazine, and The Caterpillar, as well as in anthologies edited by J. Patrick Lewis, Kenn Nesbitt, Sylvia Vardell, Brian Moses, James Carter, Janet Wong, Joshua Seigal, Roger Stevens, Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright.
In 2019, Brian Moses selected two of his poems to “highly commend” in The Caterpillar Poetry Prize competition. He’s also been known to write light verse for adults and to translate rhyming and metrical poems from other languages (mostly Spanish). Also in 2019, he had one poem “highly commended” and another “commended” in the YorkMix children’s poetry competition.
His adult poems and translations have appeared in the Washington Post, the Spectator, Salon, the Evansville Review, String Poet, Able Muse, Poetry East, the Paris Review Daily the Alabama Literary Review, Ironwood, Miller’s Pond, Redactions, Anon, the Raintown Review, the Avatar Review, Per Contra, First Things, Light Quarterly, LightenUp Online, Snakeskin, and Bumbershoot, among other journals.
As well as in the anthology, Villanelles, part of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series published by Random House, Poems for a Liminal Age, an anthology in support of Médecins Sans Frontières, and in the latest edition of Lewis Turco’s The Book of Forms.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
