- LIVING BY
WONDER
- by Richard
Lewis
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- In this lovely book, Richard Lewis
demystifies the child's imagination while capturing its poetic
spirit.
- Howard Gardner,
Harvard University,
author of The Arts
and Human Development
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- This book is excitingly rich... .
It should be wonderfully stimulating to those who work with
children, as well as to readers whose own poetry may sometimes
seem lost or shriveled within the dailyness of ordinary life. On
every page are thoughts and phrases that like pebbles tossed into
a pool set our adult minds in motion with the possibilities of
language and imagination.
- Ellen Dissanayake,
author of Wbat Is Art For?
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- Richard Lewis has retained a rare
and almost uncanny sense of the experience of childhood. He
combines this with immense sensitivity to the language and
thinking ofyoung children today. The result is a wonderfully
engaging and life affirming book that will both delight and
providepractical help to anyone who spends time with children.
Richard Lewis writes with delicacy, respect, and evident love for
human beings in that stage of life that is so important for all
that follows.
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- Kieran Egan, Simon
Fraser University, author of Primary Understanding
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- This is a quiet book, wise and
practical.... It opens door after door into what William Blake
calls the All Glorious Imagination, linking us, up with.. the
vision and power which our modern education and our culture seem
in danger of losing. The book centers on children, but one hopes
passionately that adults will lay it to heart also. Do we not need
it just as much?
- Elizabeth Sewell,
poet and author of The Human Metaphor
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- Richard Lewis knows kids already
have imagination - in contrast to the many well-intentioned
teachers who seem to think it has to be (and can be) instilled
into them by formulaic exercises which only result in a jokey,
false surrealism. Granted, imagination can be squashed and almost
wiped out, and may need to be restimulated even at an early age;
but children should not be taught to identify poetry with verbal
clowning. Such teachers need to absorb Lewis' respect and high
expectations for a child's inner life and expressive capacities;
it is clearly his attitude that has elicited so many remarkable
poems from children of different ages, many living in grim
inner-city neighborhoods. His work should be required reading for
teachers and parents.
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- Denise Levertov,
poet and essayist, author of O Taste and See
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- ISBN 0-930407-38-5
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- A Parabola Book
- Education/Child Development
- In association with
- Touchstone Center Publications
- US $18.95/CAN.$25.50
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