Down by Jim Longs Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish

By Al Pittman

Book Overview

A long-cherished children's classic is now back in print This 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition of the classic children's book is a new illustrated edition. It's time for a new generation of children to enjoy this lighthearted collection of rhymes by the acclaimed poet Al Pittman. All new whimsical illustrations by Pam Hall dance through the pages with a sublime silliness perfectly balancing Pittman's rhymes. Her original work was the Winner of the prestigious Amelia Francis Howard Gibbon Award for best Canadian illustration. The late acclaimed poet and author, Al Pittman, died on August 26, 2001 at the age of sixty-one, after a lengthy illness. He was one of Newfoundland's best contemporary writers. Al built an inte ational reputation over the last 40 years creating award-winning poetry, plays and scripts for radio and television. Some of these include the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award, The Canada Council Arts Award, the Lydia Campbell Award, the Stephen Leacock Centenial Award, The Writer's Alliance Book Award for Poetry and has been inducted into the Arts Council's Hall of Honour. Up until his death he was a Writer in Residence at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Co er Brook, Newfoundland.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550811630
• ISBN13: 9781550811636
• Release Date: June 1976
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Personal favorite of a marine biologist from Newfoundland

This book was first published the year I was born, in the same province. The verses from "Down by Jim Long's Stage" are among my earliest memories, and I can still rhyme off most of them today, almost 30 years later. I don't know if I can blame the book for my fate, but I've found myself in a career as a fisheries biologist, and I can scarely see a codfish, sculpin of squid without the words coming back to me. I'm no longer a child, and have never been a fish, but thanks Al and Pam! As long as there are copies to be had, this book is going to be a required gift to all the youngsters (and young-at-heart) in my life.

A wonderful and recommended rhyming book for young readers.

Written by Al Pittman, Down By Jim Long's Stage is a justifiably classic picturebook cherished for 25 years, now reprinted in a special collector's edition. The rhymes about various different fish are pleasant, lyrical, and make for excellent reading to young people before bedtime. The charming color illustrations of the various add a special flair, so distinctive that they earned the Canadian Library Association's Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Best Canadian Illustration in 1977. A wonderful rhyming book for young readers, and enhanced with new illustrations by Pam Hall, Down By Jim Long's Stage will continue to be treasured for many more years to come.