![]() ![]() ""Seventh-Grade Soap Opera"" gives voice to the perils of junior high life as a never-ending saga the artwork carries through the theme with extended phone chords and overlapping images within discreet vignettes. Readers eventually realize that the ""peaceful"" evenings-""Grandma rockin'/ Clock tick-tockin'/ Sister hummin'/ Grandpa strummin' ""-may not be so quiet after all. ![]() In ""The Quiet Evenings Here,"" droll country folk detail the noises of city life, images of which Giacobbe captures in sepia tones, as well as their preferred serene gatherings around the hearth, rendered in full color. Fleischman's poems vary in dramatic and poetic intensity. Except for the full-page images that begin and end each poem, Italian artist Giacobbe's computer-generated illustrations appear within a kind of elaborate comic strip at the bottom of each page. An introduction explains how to use the book and suggests some variations (for fewer or more than four readers). ![]() Part drama, part chorus, the three extended poems read like a musical score: each speaker follows a line of color-green, yellow, orange or purple-then rests when the line is blank. ![]() Fleischman expands from verse duets, as featured in his Newbery Award-winning Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, to quartets with this well-crafted volume. ![]()
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