That said, what gave you the idea for The Playbook? Nikki Grimes: As I read your new book, I found myself wondering if writing is not your true vocation, but is in fact the vehicle through which your purest vocation manifests, and that is to inspire. Fellow poet and friend Nikki Grimes, the author of One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance and winner of the 2017 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, spoke with Alexander about their shared passion for verse and for empowering young people through poetry. In Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures, Alexander’s poems are paired with animal photographs by Joel Sartore, crafting an ode to the animal kingdom. In Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets, Alexander teams up with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth to form a kaleidoscopic anthology inspired by 20 of their favorite poets. But his new picture book projects mark a return to poetry. Read the text of the poem and study the illustration.Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander is widely acclaimed for his middle-grade verse novels, The Crossover and Booked, set in the world of competitive basketball his recent title, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life, offers motivational words for success both on and off the court.As an extension, watch the DVD version of this book created by Dreamspace where the poems are animated and music accompanies the reading.Ĭhoose one poem from this book and consider the following prompts: Illustrator Ekua Holmes created incredible, intricate mixed-media illustrations that bring these poems to life.
Use the book itself as the primary source and each illustration as an opportunity for slow looking and close analysis. In the Preface, author Kwame Alexander writes the title of the book “Out of Wonder” was inspired by something another author and poet wrote Lucille Cliffton said, “poems come out of wonder, not of knowing.” Invite students to start from that place of wonder when they read and experience this book.
Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen. Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder.
Illustrated by Ekua Holmes, Written by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth
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