Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems

This Reading Rainbow edition with Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon illustrators is a delightful package. For the poetic content, the initial, title piece is exciting and vibrant with a present voice of joy over a couple of pages that had me re-reading lines with glee. The rest of the material, generally about familial and home 'hood love, is not as strong or resonant.

Absolutely delightful, beautiful, fun... and important. I hope everyone who interacts with children of any race or culture shares it with them. And I hope it brings more of us to the classic [b:Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems|199910|Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems|Eloise Greenfield|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1395104564s/199910.jpg|574399]. Gilchrist's narrator is a charmer that I believe we can all fall in love with. Can you guess the one thing she does *not* love?

Eloise Greenfield is a children’s author whose work portrays strong, loving African American families. She tries to instill in children a sense of Black pride and self-confidence. In “Honey, I Love,” there are sixteen poems that express these values in fun, sing-songy, exuberant verse. In the title poem, a little girl rattles off the things she loves: the way her cousin talks, jumping in the hose on hot, sticky days, taking family rides, laughing, her mama, “and a whole lot of things.” The musical poetry in this small book will enchant you.

Beautifully written short book of mostly short poems written to a child and in a child's voice. Uncomplicated but full of love and feeling. Illustrations are charcoal portrait type drawings of an African-American girl interspersed with brown and white child-like sketches that tell the story of the poem. Poems are mostly about every-day things like riding the train, playing with friends, not wanting to go to sleep because she's having too much fun. My favorite was "Harriet Tubman"-
"...Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff
Wasn't scared of nothing neither
Didn't come to this world to be no slave
And didn't stay one either
And didn't stay one either"

Would make a good read-aloud book or something to share with a child at bedtime.

I really enjoyed the book “Honey, I love”. One aspect I liked was the illustrations. They were bright and colorful. They also took up the entire page and did not leave any white space unless it was part of the picture. Even if the words on the page did not say what exactly the character loved the reader can tell what she loves by looking at the pictures. Another aspect I liked was the writing. It was written in poetry and it rhymed. “Renee comes out to play and brings her doll without a dress, I make a dress with paper and that doll sure looks a mess”. Since it is written in poetry it allows for the words to flow together. I think because the words flow together so nicely that it also keeps the reader interested. The big idea of show more this story is love the things you have around you. show less

This book speaks of all experiencesa child might have from jump roping, to dressing up, to 'getting down' with music, to riding on trains, to being ignored, or a big brother growing up and being with his friends instead of with you anymore. Talked about black history, a poem about Harriet Tubman. Daydreaming. About family, real life issues, even to dealing with when someone dies.

I really liked this book of poems, although it had illustrations and was apparently written for black children, l felt it could have been written for any child and the experiences any child might go through.

Honey, I Love and Other Poems was a poem book compiled of several poems. The one particular I read was titled "Honey, I Love". I really liked this poem and the writing style for two reasons. This author used repetition well throughout her writing. For example, after several lines, the author would end the stanza by saying "Honey, let me tell you that I LOVE". Using repetition in a poem adds emphasis to those particular words in the poem. It caused me as the reader to read with more intensity and more feeling.
The second reason I liked this poem was because it told a story. It was not just a group of lines put together in a stanza with no meaning. This poem started by telling the general statement that "I love a lot of things, a whole lot show more of things" then it went into what the author actually loves- the way her cousin talks, a flying pool, the laughing sound, to take a ride, her and mama's arm. She also mentioned one thing that she doesn't love which is to go to sleep. The poem introduced the topic, then discussed each thing she loved in a stanza. I believe the big idea of this poem is things you love to do. Even though there are some things we don't love to do, we should try to at least have more things we love outweigh the things we don't love. show less