I Heard a Scream in the Street

by Nancy Larrick

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B01JQCHGWW
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.-Yearling Book
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Both historical and timeless

Great verse, great poetry. This is a collection of poems created by inner city children in 1970. Where once the book stood as a current shocking collection of voices, it now retains that reputation as well as serving as a useful historical document to children 24 years ago. Reading this book I admittedly had to wonder whether or not the punctuation and lines were chosen by the kids or by compiler Nancy Larrick after they were selected. Some are incredibly good. Some are mediocre. In most cases, I'd love to know what some of these kids went on to do after writing their stories in verse. There should be a follow up book of some sort. The photographs in this book are, according to the title page, "Illustrated... by Students". What does that mean? No credit or explanation accompanies these, flawing the book ever so slightly. For those instructors trying their darndest to get kids interested in poetry, any book with the title, "I Heard a Scream in the Street" is bound to garner some interest.