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    Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

    By Natalie S. Bober and Rebecca Gibbon

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    Papa Is a Poet: is a picture book about the famous American poet Robert Frost, imagined through the eyes of his daughter Lesley.

    When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781466845091
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    Natalie S. Bober

    Natalie S. Bober is an award-winning biographer and a historian with a long-standing interest in the eighteenth century. She lectures extensively, has taught and served as a consultant on the secondary and college levels, and was part of the Ken Burns film documentary on Thomas Jefferson. Her most recent books include A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost; Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain; and Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Golden Kite Award of the SCBWI. She resides with her husband in Westchester County, New York, and derives great pleasure from her grandchildren, who happily serve as readers and critics of her books.

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    • 5/5
      I love this book! I love how the speaker of the book is Robert Frost's daughter, Lesley Frost. I think that by having the perspective of the book be written from Lesley's perspective it gives it a more divine, unique tone and meaning. I think that if this biography had been in the viewpoint of Robert Frost himself it wouldn't have been as interesting to read. The speaker does a great job of getting her central message across, which is that, her father, Robert Frost was a great poet who took chances and worked hard to make a living. The central message of the poem also relates to the fact that it is important to take chances and make new experiences for oneself. One thing that I especially loved about this book was how lines of Robert Frost's poems were included in the book to tag along with the text on the page. For example, on one page the lines, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by..." After including this line, Lesley starts talking about how the road that her father took was an important road to take. Another thing that I love about this book is its illustrations. The illustrations wrap around each page to give the perspective that the text is embedded in the illustrations. I think that this provides a great visual for the reader to connect the text about Robert Frost and his adventurous life to a picture of what his life really looked like.This technique helps the reader gain greater meaning and comprehension of the text.
    • 4/5
      Robert Frost's eldest daughter tells the story of how her father became a poet in this beautifully illustrated and designed picture book. Includes several of Frost's best known poems.
    • 5/5
      Papa is a Poet is a picture book that gives a brief history of Robert Frost's life. The story is told from the perspective of Lesley, Frost's oldest daughter, and is an account of their lives before Frost's works were published. The story begins with the family returning to New York from England, and upon their arrival they see a review of Frost's poetry in "The New Republic." Bewildered as to what is going on, Frost tells the family to hang out at Grand Central Station while he walks down to his publisher's office. At this point the book flashes back fifteen or so years, and Lesley reminisces on their lives leading up to this special point in time. We learn of simple times on a New Hampshire poultry farm, home schooling, and the family's fondness of reading. Lesley tells us how her father instilled in them a love of literature, poetry and writing. Imagine having Robert Frost as your personal at-home English teacher! We also take in how Frost manages his time as a farmer, maximizing his opportunities to be alone, to think and to write poetry. Although life seemed very "ordinary but meaningful," Frost longed for a place where he would be able to write freely without the scrutiny and prejudices of New Hampshire, and off to England they went. The book comes to a close as it flashes back to the station, and the family learns that Frost will finally be published and paid for his works. Throughout the book, lines from a number of Frost's works are interjected into the text. These lines don't detract from the story being told, and they never seem forced in any way. Instead, they provide a rather organic flow, and they make it easy to remember the nature of simplicity that so many of his works embody. The final excerpt is from "The Road Not Taken," and it seems a fitting summation of the book's lesson: trust your feelings and take the meaningful path, even if it isn't necessarily the easiest. The illustrations are quite literal in relation to the text, and they are drawn and painted rather simply. To me, they work well with the text in a manner that isn't too visually vivid or overwhelming, especially the way that the watercolor is used. At the end of the book is a short biography of Frost penned by the author, followed by quotations and full versions of the poems that were quoted in the story. I took time to read these works in their entirety, and this was very refreshing for me as I haven't sat and read Frost for years. I think the book would be ideal to use as an introduction to Frost's work, as it provides an interesting biographical take. Too often we know of authors' achievements without understanding the struggle and strife it takes to get there.