Hey You! C'mere: A metrical composition Slam by Elizabeth Swados Illustrated from Joe Cepeda Arthur A.

Hey You! C'mere: A metrical composition Slam by Elizabeth Swados Illustrated from Joe Cepeda Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Pres February 2002 $1595 ISBN 0-439-09257-4 ages 6-12

In Elizabeth Swados' picture work Hey You! C'mere: A rhyme Slam, a group of neighborhood lads and girls express their everyday experiences with angry, humorous silly and sad poems. The seven characters take young readers by the agency of a day in their lives, as they stand up to the neighborhood overbear run for cover during a rain storm, take pleasure in a plate of impossibly drawn out spaghetti, and get nearly squeez to death by means of dear old Aunt Evelyn (I'm going to kiss you, Smooch you, Koo-kootchie koo you. I'm going to snug you, Huggle you, Niggle you and nuggle you )

Swados' humorously worded and expressive poems--16 in all--give voice to many issues and emotions that all children experience. Joe Cepeda's beautifully drawn and colorful illustrations bring the characters' transports sorrows, fears, likes and dislikes to life.

Hey You! C'mere is a rich, powerful and moving rhyme slam that parents will have the advantage [i]or[/i] blessing of as much as their kids.

--Lynda Jone is an editor and author of Great Black Heroes: Five Great Black Writers.

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