ABOUT THIS BOOK

"Poets are sometimes forgetful. They write poems and if these verses are ahead of their time or quite unlike their other poetry, they put them aside for another day....Something like this seems to have happened with Carl Sandburg's collection Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote." --From the introduction

These poems, recently discovered by Sandburg scholars George and Willene Hendrick, invite us to see objects as familiar as chairs, clocks, and pencils--or our very own eyes, ears, and nose--in an arresting and fresh new way. In this collection, Sandburg has fun teasing the imagination and making us smile, while Istvan Banyai plays a jazzy accompaniment in pen and ink (with a little help from the computer). For children ages eight to eighty, here is an intriguing little volume as bright and beckoning as the twenty-first century!


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is fondly remembered as America's unofficial poet laureate. He was also a biographer and historian. His monumental six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940, and in 1951 his Complete Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Istvan Banyai, born and educated in Hungary, came to the United States in 1981. His striking and innovative illustrations have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Time, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. He made his debut in children's publishing in 1995 with the award-winning wordless picture book Zoom, followed by REM: Rapid Eye Movement and Re-Zoom.

George Hendrick is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Willene Hendrick is an independent scholar. The Hendricks have for many years been closely associated with the Sandburg estate and the Sandburg collection at the University of Illinois.


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