There is a feeling of connection and communion – with the author and the subject – when we read a poem that articulates our deepest feelings. It has the power to reach inside of you, to ignite something in you, and to change you in ways you never imagined. ^ 'Coretta Scott King Award Winners: 2018'.^ 'Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present'.Children's and Young Adult Book Lover's Literary Awards. 'Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction for Youth: 2017'. 'Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets'. ^ 'Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander'.' 'Out Of Wonder' Aims To Inspire A New Generation Of Poets'. 'Renée Watson, Ekua Holmes win 2018 Coretta Scott King Book Awards'. ^ Communications and Marketing Office ().Awards for Out of Wonder Yearīooklist Editors' Choice: Books for YouthĬoretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator Kirkus Reviews named it one of the best books of the year, and Booklist included it on their 'Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction for Youth' list. Out of Wonder is a New York Times bestselling book. takes the already exuberant book to an even higher plane.' Awards and honors If that weren't enough, the gorgeous cut-paper artwork by Caldecott Honor artist Ekua Holmes. Shelf Awareness's Emilie Coulter wrote, 'Even readers who claim they don't enjoy poetry will be won over by these crystal-clear, mostly child-centric poems. Kirkus called the book 'a magnificent exploration of the poetic imagination.' Each illustration captures not just the feeling of the poem but wakes readers up to life’s excitements and small joys.' She concluded by stating, 'Exemplary words and pictures make this a multicultural masterwork.' But even without such links, most of the poetry-breezy, thoughtful, amusing-stands on its own.' Cooper further praised the illustrations: 'Holmes takes collage work to a new level, with gloriously colored art that, the closer you look, tells further stories within stories. cummings, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Carlos Williams, among others.

īooklist's Ilene Cooper highlighted how the book pays 'tribute to well-known poets, such as Maya Angelou, e. Out of Wonder was well-received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Each of the 20 poems is written in tribute to and in the style of a well known poet. The book won the 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets is a 2017 collection of poems for children's by Kwame Alexander with co-authors Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth and illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (2018)

Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander