Bob Raczka, Author Millbrook Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1832-3
A variety of artistic expressions invite young readers to re-examine paintings they may take for granted or that might once have intimidated them. Art Is by Bob Raczka pairs a simple rhyming text with a wide range of artwork designed to expand ...
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Bob Raczka, Author Millbrook Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1994-8
More Than Meets the Eye: Seeing Art with All Five Senses by Bob Raczka, a companion to his No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist and Art Is..., asks sensory questions. ""Have you ever tasted a painting?"" seems a logical...
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Bob Raczka. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-62672-236-1
Raczka (Lemonade) returns to the subject of concrete poetry with a virtuoso gathering of 21 poems, in which he plays with the layout and form of both the poems and their titles. (Not to be left out, the table of contents is shaped into a T, and the...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Peter H. Reynolds, Houghton Mifflin, $16.99 (54p) ISBN 978-0-547-24003-9
In creating this nostalgic collection of haiku, Raczka (Summer Wonders) cites the form's brevity and its emphasis on nature and the present as reasons why it's "a wonderful form of poetry for guys like us." Categorized (as haiku traditionally are)...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Chad Cameron. Carolrhoda, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7613-4606-7
With giddy abandon, Cameron's (A Day with No Crayons) bustling, mixed-media artwork has fun with this story's gleefully wacky premise. Moving from windswept, daytime panoramas to shadowy evenings, the pictures leave no doubt that much is awry this...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Dan E. Burr. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-980-1
Commanders-in-chief have long been targets for jokes, and Raczka continues this tradition with gusto in a collection of clerihews (short comic verses aimed at the famous) for each American president, accompanied by Burr’s impish b&w caricatures. The
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Glin Dibley. Lerner/Carolrhoda, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-6015-5
The Mudville Nine are looking for redemption after Mighty Casey’s disheartening strikeout the day before. It arrives in the form of a relief pitcher who, as Raczka puts it, also happens to be “a she.” Her first name, Joy, alludes to the beloved...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Chuck Groenink. Lerner/Carolrhoda, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-1805-9
Writing in the voice of Santa himself, Raczka (Lemonade) offers a haiku for each day in December leading up to Christmas. This is not a frantic Santa laboring day and night in his workshop; in fact, he’s seen there only on December 9, calmly...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Nancy Doniger, Roaring Brook, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-541-4
Inspired by the concrete poetry of Andrew Russ (aka endwar), Raczka's poems are all produced from the letters in single words, magnifying and playing on their meanings. "Vacation" is transformed into "action/ in/ a/ van," and the letters from "snowfl
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Simone Shin. Carolrhoda, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-9843-3
Niko is an abstract expressionist, although he doesn’t know it, nor does anyone around him. Showing his parents a drawing composed of yellow striations and red swirls and knots, he explains, “It’s the warm of the sun on my face.” When Dad says he...
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Bob Raczka, illus. by Kristen and Kevin Howdeshell. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4914-9
Speaking directly to readers, Raczka (The Poet of Piney Woods) explores human existence from multiple unifying angles. Second-person lines suggest commonality by way of physical similarities (“You are a living thing./ You breathe.// You eat./ You...
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