A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers. by Nancy Willard. illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen (1981). 48p. New York: Harcourt Brace.
Awards and Honors: Newbery Medal, Caldecott Honor
Review:
A collection of poetry about an imaginary inn belonging to the poet William Blake and its fantastical guests and staff. Sun flowers, tigers, rabbits and cats inhabit the magical inn where they interact with each other and with the owner. Accompanying the poems are the Provensens' illustrations, rendered in muted earth tones, detailed, yet old-fashioned seeming, in keeping with the tone of the poems. Willard's language is rich, employing words like 'prodigious' and 'incommodious'.
Opinion:
Even though the language is difficult, I feel that younger readers would get the most enjoyment from this book with its fanciful illustrations and imaginative poems.
Even though the language is difficult, I feel that younger readers would get the most enjoyment from this book with its fanciful illustrations and imaginative poems.
Ideas:
I'd use this book for a language arts class to enrich a lesson on William Blake.
I'd use this book for a language arts class to enrich a lesson on William Blake.
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