Crow!
More than 200 poems to delight, entertain, and educate youngsters from 6 to 90 years. Illustrated by Julie Baumgardner, Steve's younger sis.
Using the several Kentucky dialects with which he is familiar, Cope has captured the rhythms of our language like no other—the very book we need to begin reading to our children again, especially those of us who are from or have a heart for Appalachia.
This heirloom book is something to be cherished, to be passed on to our children’s children.
Reviews for Crow!
Anne Shelby --
"If Wordsworth met up with Dr. Seuss somewhere in eastern Kentucky, and setting out to write poems together, they ran smack dab into James Still and Ogden Nash, you might end up with something as funny, surprising, and generally delightful as Crow !"
Julie Maruskin--
"Steven Cope's poems answer a great many burning questions of schoolyard social circles: What is an elephat? How do you locate a giant? And, neither last nor least in this rollicking, quirky work, how did Miss Tawdry come to be blue--ALL OVER?"
Richard Hague--
"Steven Cope's Crow ! is a cornucopia of verses with meters as crisp as the illustrations that accompany them. Here are children's poems without the pablum. Wit, good humor, surprise, and vivid wordplay reign.... What a broad and deep pleasure to dip into again and again."
Some shorter selections from Crow !
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Sometimes the dumbest of the lot
Will tell you plain what God forgot
And looking wisely into space
Reveal the mustard on his face.
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Papaw had a sweetheart
He loved with all his might,
And when he called her "Poodle,"
I knew it was all right.
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Papaw got baptised in a pond
While Mamaw on the bank looked on,
And all the angels in the trees
Amen'd when they heard Papaw sneeze.
© 2005, 136 pages, hardcover; This book is available from Amazon or directly from the publisher. To inquire about ordering a copy signed by the author, please e-mail info@stevenrcope.com