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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost, a classic poet, wrote many poems over his lifetime. In Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening we find lovely illustrations by Vivian Mineker to help children meet good poetry. Wintery scenes cover each of the 32 pages of this hardcover poem that I am reviewing for Raincoast Books.
Winter scenes grace the pages of this illustrated poem, finding horses in brown, bunnies in white, and people in winter garb.
You’ll read words of love, loss and memories. Words of connection, of family and friends, of love for a horse and watching it’s reactions. These words are a nice sized font, but sized for sitting together on a couch or bed.
Some of the pages of this illustrated poem have no words. This is such a nice surprise. Wordless pages give time for thought and reflection don’t you find?
The brightness of the clothes against a wintery background suited the words full well. Highlighting the relationships and memories between people meeting.
Should this be on your shelves?
Vivian Mineker illustrations bring to life the poetry of Robert Frost with Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening to a whole new generation. I had not read this poem before now, and her illustrations fit the words. This book would be a nice way to add poetry into the lives of anyone who reads it. I love that some of the pages have no words so you can just look, talk, and/or think.
I find it so interesting when something that I know so well is brand new to someone else. I was surprised to see you hadn’t read this one before. It is such a beautiful poem. I love to see illustrated children’s books with it because it allows for so much imagination. It was one of my favorite book studies to do with my youngest when she was about 5. This would have been a fun addition to that.
really? Oh my… I was surprised to see that this is not the first rendition of this poem in children’s book form. So new to me.