16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Chuck Groenink, Lisa Jean Rogers
Published by Schwartz & Wade Books on September 24, 2019
ISBN: 152472016X
Pages: 40
Genres: Biography/Autobiography
Format: Picture Book Nonfiction
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The book will appeal to fans of Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet. It is a sparse biography about Dr. William Carlos Williams who created a new kind of poetry. He used ordinary words and images and did not follow rhythmic patterns. They didn’t even rhyme! It has lovely lush illustrations of the ordinary things Williams writes poems about. Fun to learn the back story about “the red wheelbarrow” and more information about an extraordinary man who wrote poems about ordinary things. I doubt kids will find it unless shared by their teachers.

Reviewed by Barb Rehmeyer, Liberty Library.