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What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings
Contributor(s): Sidman, Joyce (Author), Zagarenski, Pamela (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0544106164     ISBN-13: 9780544106161
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Poetry
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Performing Arts - General
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Friendship
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 2012047836
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 9.4" L (0.70 lbs) 80 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
- Topical - Teen
- Topical - Gift
- Topical - Inspiration
- Topical - Real Life Heroes
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Ten to Fourteen, 2014
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award, Winner, Poetry, 2014
Children's Book Committee Award, Winner, Poetry, 2014
L.A. Times Book Prize, Finalist, Young Adult Literature, 2013
Cybils, Finalist, Poetry, 2013
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/05/2013
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2013
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2013 pg. 180
School Library Journal 11/01/2013 pg. 134
Shelf Awareness 11/01/2013
Booklist 11/15/2013 pg. 45
Shelf Awareness 12/13/2013
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2014 pg. 106
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 181 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
 
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Publisher Description:
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings is a collection of poems to provide comfort, courage, and humor at difficult or daunting moments in life. It conjures forth laments, spells, invocations, chants, blessings, promises, songs, and charms. Here are pleas on how to repair a friendship, wishes to transform one's life or to slow down time, charms to face the shame of a disapproving crowd, invocations to ask for forgiveness, to understand the mysteries of happiness, and to bravely face a dark and different world. These words help us remember or grieve; they bolster courage and guard against evil; they help us celebrate and give thanks. This elegant gift book also includes a red ribbon for readers to mark their favorite poems.

Poet extraordinaire Joyce Sidman won the Newbery Honor Medal for Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night and continues to write poetry for children that has been called fresh, inspiring, and accessible to her young audience. She is intrigued by the idea of words of power--chants and charms that were once believed to have real influence in everyday life. Caldecott Honor-winning Pamela Zagarenski's beautiful art captures a world of emotion and the essence of Sidman's words.

Contributor Bio(s): Zagarenski, Pamela: - Pamela Zagarenski is the winner of two Caldecott Honors. The books she has illustrated have also been Booklist Editor's Choices, Horn Book Fanfare and Bulletin Blue Ribbon books, winners of Bank Street's Claudia Lewis Award, and translated into many languages. As well as illustrating picture books, she creates paintings and has a gift card line. She lives in Connecticut. Visit her online at pzagarenski.com, on Instagram @sacredbee, and Twitter @sacredbeez.Sidman, Joyce: - The Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman is today's foremost nature poet for children. Accolades for her books include two Caldecott Honors, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Award, winner of the Claudia Lews Award, and many stars and best of lists. For her award-winning body of work, she won the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. Visit www.joycesidman.com
 
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