Fly by Night
by Randall Jarrell
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During the night while everyone sleeps, a little boy floats up from his bed and flies through the house and the countryside beyond.Tags
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This is a poetic gem of a small book and was the final collaboration of Jarrell and Sendak before Jarrell's passing.
By day David is lonely, living in a cottage at the edge of the woods with no play mates. By day, David's life is filled with wonderful images and animals and in his dream he flies throughout the countryside seeing and knowing the thoughts and feelings of the creatures.
By day David is lonely, living in a cottage at the edge of the woods with no play mates. By day, David's life is filled with wonderful images and animals and in his dream he flies throughout the countryside seeing and knowing the thoughts and feelings of the creatures.
Didn't work for me. Maybe because I've never had a good experience when someone meets me at breakfast and says "Let me tell you about this extraordinary dream I had."
My rating is my own personal reaction. I do look forward to re-reading the 'companion' book, [b:The Bat-Poet|285151|The Bat-Poet|Randall Jarrell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387714245s/285151.jpg|1359796].
My rating is my own personal reaction. I do look forward to re-reading the 'companion' book, [b:The Bat-Poet|285151|The Bat-Poet|Randall Jarrell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387714245s/285151.jpg|1359796].
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Boys, girls, flying, fantasy -- children's/young adult fiction
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Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 6, 1914. He earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. His first book of poetry, Blood from a Stranger, was published in 1942. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Force as a control tower operator. His other books of poetry include Little Friend, Little show more Friend; Losses; and The Lost World. He won the National Book Award in 1961 for The Woman at the Washington Zoo. In addition to writing poetry, he reviewed it during a brief period spent as poetry editor for The Nation. Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket are collections of his essays as a poetry critic. His teaching career included stints at Kenyon College, the University of Texas, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina/Greensboro. He also was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate. He was hit by a car in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and died in October 14, 1965 at the age of 51. (Bowker Author Biography) Randall Jarrell (1914-65) was a prolific poet, critic, and translator. His Complete Poems are available from FSG. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- 1976
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- 5 — Catalan, English, German, Japanese, Spanish
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