Full name: Steady Hands: Poems About Work

Author: Tracie Vaughn Zimmer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Children, Picture books Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618903511 0618903518

In this collection of free-verse poems, inspired by Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer celebrates workers and the doing of work. The poems are short and direct, with strong, fresh images, and readers can easily imagine themselves in the roles she portrays: welder, librarian, surgeon, retail clerk, camp counselor. The illustrations are as original as the text---amazing multilayered collages made of paper, found objects, ephemera, photographs, dried flowers, and archival images. Steady Hands is sure to inspire discussion, creative writing, art projects, and new answers to the old question: What do you want to do when you grow up? Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss Time for Bed by Mem Fox The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown I'm in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor