The Best of Eating Cherries with a Fox
Twenty haiku poems for their own sake
by Poetry and artwork by Select Second Grade Students at Lafayette Elementary School in Lafayette, Colorado
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About the Book
In the space of ten short hours, twenty young students took on the spirit of Basho--the father of haiku. In Tim Meyers' beautiful story "Basho and the Fox", Basho learns an important lesson through a wager with a prideful, clever fox to win the rights to the fruit of a cherry tree: he learns, and shares, that the best haiku is not judged in academic terms, but that, instead, "a poem should be written for its own sake."
In the same way, these students wrote, edited, and found joy in their work, and at the end of the day, they were all smiling and slurping juice from their sticky fingers:
Eating Cherries with a Fox
In the same way, these students wrote, edited, and found joy in their work, and at the end of the day, they were all smiling and slurping juice from their sticky fingers:
Eating Cherries with a Fox
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Whirligig Press
Lafayette, Colorado
Whirligig Press is a small, teaching press that is just beginning to spin off original work by children and adults