ENORMOUS SMALLNESS,A Story of E.E.Cummings explores this poet in words & images that are just as fresh as his own.
Matthew Burgess is a full-time professor at Brooklyn
College and a part-time teaching artist in New York City public
schools. He was fascinated by the lives of saints as a child, and
now he loves sharing the stories of his artistic heroes with young
readers. Matthew is the author of Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.
E. Cummings, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring, and Make
Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent. He lives with his
husband in Brooklyn and Berlin.
Kris Di Giacomo is an American who has lived in France
since childhood. She has illustrated over twenty-five books for
French publishers, which have been translated into many languages.
This is her sixth book to be published by Enchanted Lion Books,
following My Dad Is Big And Strong, But . . . ; Brief
Thief; Me First!; The Day I Lost My
Superpowers; and My Dad at the Zoo.
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Huffington Post Best Picture Book in Biography for 2015
A 2016 Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts
Selected by the Great Lakes Great Books Award committee, a program
of the Michigan Reading Association, for the 2016-2017 state-wide
literature program
"An eminently friendly introduction to both the poet and his
spiritdeceptively simple, just like its subject." -- STARRED
review, Kirkus Reviews
an uncommonly delightful picture-book celebration of Cummings’s
life” -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"An eminently friendly introduction to both the poet and his
spiritdeceptively simple, just like its subject." -- STARRED
review, Kirkus Reviews
"The title of this book (Enormous Smallness) is perfect. Many of us
think of poems as small things, but as much as anyone, E. E.
Cummings showed us that even the smallest stanza could hold
enormous meaning. Lovingly written (Burgess is himself a poet) and
ingeniously illustrated, this book is a treasure for both fans of
Cummings, as well as those discovering his poetry for the first
time." -- The Huffington Post
"Di Giacomo's capricious collages create a lively interplay between
pictures and words, and visual motifs such as birds and elephants
intermingle with samples of Cummings's work. Burgess delivers a
thorough and lovingly crafted homage to a writer whose poems 'were
alive with experimentation and surprise.'" -- Publishers Weekly
"WOW. Dare I saw I was carried away by the awesomeness of enormous
SMALLNESS? It has been a while since I have seen such a perfect
pairing of story and art. It will give me great pleasure to put it
into the hands of small (and tall) and introduce another generation
to the genius of e. e. cummings." -- Mona, Jabberwocky Book Store,
Fredericksburg, VA
It's important to get your kid to sleep, but a good bedtime
reading does a lot more it can inspire them in ways that will
serve them well later on. That's the message of Enormous Smallness,
a new picture book biography of the poet E.E. Cummings” --
Fatherly
A fabulous biographical picture book, this book is a great
introduction to E.E. Cummings and his work.”-- Waking Brain
Cells
The author includes major life events and poems, always circling
back to a playfulness born in the poet's childhood and carried
through his entire life, nurtured by parents and teachers. What
makes this such a successful children's book is the author and
artist's focus on Cummings's ability to channel and hold onto the
inventiveness of childhood.”
--Jennifer M. Brown, Children's Editor, Shelf Awareness
"Plus it’s beautiful. Each page is a collage of words and visual
elements that work in the manner of a Cummings poem. Letters fall
from his mouth during graduation, and the more he writes, the more
letters make up parts of the background colors of the
pages."Unshelved
"My second graders, with no prompting, absolutely LOVED Enormous
Smallness, a perfect picture book biography of the great e.e.
cummings by Matthew Burgess. (Without invitation, they applauded!)
They were silent and receptive the whole way through (that means
they were with me. It was as though they realized they can be
poets! At least that's what I hope.)"--Bri Johnson, New York City
Librarian
It’s a book that will be hugely encouraging to young children who
want to write, be poets, or just do things a little differently
from the norm.” -- Whitney Morton Woodcock, Portland Book
Review
an uncommonly delightful picture-book celebration of Cummings’s
life” -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"This is a remarkable book that gives an example of one kid who did
everything differently-- and came out OK. In fact, he became one of
our greatest poets. The book is fun, informative, and It sends a
valuable message with wit, creativity and beauty; it tells kids its
OK to "color outside the lines" and to have an inner life not
driven by others’ expectations."
Enormous smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings is a KBACH/Changing
Hands Bookstore Book of the Month Pick
This is a book that will satisfy both the adults who read it to
children, and the children who are lucky enough to hear it.” The
San Francisco Book Review
This is a lovely little poem of a book; appropriate enough, since
it details the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings . . . a book that
will be hugely encouraging to young children who want to write, be
poets, or just do things a little differently from the norm.” The
Portland Book Review
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