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Winter, spring, summer and fall, all ya gotta do is read the poems

Poems for Every Season by Bette Westera and David Colmer

November 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back I requested several picture books from an online reader site. One of them was Poems for Every Season by Bette Westera and David Colmer (translator). I was not sure what I would get. I mean I figured poems and seasons (and of course most likely poems about seasons), but I did not have super high expectations. I figured things would be good, but not great. Plus, I just did not want to be disappointed as I had been a lot before (and since) reading […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Bette Westera, Bette Westera and David Colmer, children's poetry, Concepts, David Colmer, Dutch poetry, flowers, Henriette Boerendans, nature, plants, science, seasons

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:503 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Bette Westera, Bette Westera and David Colmer, children's poetry, Concepts, David Colmer, Dutch poetry, flowers, Henriette Boerendans, nature, plants, science, seasons ·
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Come experience me

You Are the Loveliest by The Hagens

April 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I really cannot say more about You Are the Loveliest than what the publisher said. It is “A translated book of poems for children that explore life, love, and feeling from a child’s perspective, with accompanying illustrations” Though I know I need to. The Hagens have created poetry (which is translated by David Colmer) in an old school-old fashioned tone. These are poems sound as if your grandparents had read them when they were children. Yet, the book is publisher 2022 (I cannot see if […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: children's poetry, David Colmer, Dutch, Marit Tornqvist, The Hagens

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:162 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: children's poetry, David Colmer, Dutch, Marit Tornqvist, The Hagens ·
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