COUNTRY PIE

by Frank Asch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 19, 1979

The best of Asch's country poems (counterparts to last year's City Sandwiches) are like his characteristic doodles--or like offhand, fanciful conceits that might drift through a kid's head as he lies drowsing in ""The Strawberry Patch."" ""Sunflakes"" muses on how it would be ""if sunlight fell like snowflakes""; another celebrates looking into puddles ("". . . when I laugh/ they laugh,/ and when I cry/ they don't mind getting wet""); another asserts that ""If only I could stand/ still enough, long enough,/ . . ./ I'm sure I could become a tree."" Asch's busy, tight-packed black-and-white ground cover fits this mood less well than it did the less tranquil city--but his line-drawn figures are loose and easy as always, and the yellow frames and accents bring some sun into the pictures.

Pub Date: Feb. 19, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Greenwillow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1979

Categories: NONFICTION