Overview / 简介: |
| Anna Bean may be the first Bean to be in a book if her poem wins a school contest. She needs a quiet place to concentrate, so she gets special permission to sit on the roof, which turns out to be anything but quiet when her sisters and brothers come to join her and write roof poems, too. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| Grade 2-5 Byars' portrayal of the Bean family is fresh, crisp, and perfectly done. Here she turns her poetic style to the subject of poetrypoetry written on the apartment roof by various members of the engaging Bean family. When Anna retreats to the roof to write a poem for school, she is joined first by her brother, George; then by her sister, Jenny; followed by their mother; and finally their father. Poetic fever engulfs the family, and all write a roof poemall except forlorn George, to whom creative inspiration will not come, thus making him the only Bean without a poem. Two threads tie the story togetherthe family's conviction that Anna will be ``the first Bean to be in a book,'' and George's frustration with his writer's block. In the end, George does write a poemand Anna is devastated when her poem is not selected for the school's book. The Bean parents' unabashed pride in their children and the family's love for each other combine with Byars' fine ear for dialogue among siblings and deft characterizations to make a book that should be a first choice among children just beginning chapter books, as well as reluctant readers. Trev Jones, ``School Library Journal''
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Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| I worked as a school librarian for a number of years and this is my favorite Betsy Byars book of all. It is a tender, yet funny, story of how every child has talents and is worthy of love. It's a great read-aloud or independent reader -- I used it for third grade on up. |
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