He has written more than 5,000 poems for children and adults that have appeared in anthologies, newspapers and magazines ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Highlights and Cricket magazines. He is the author of more than 100 books from Random House, Disney, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc.
Every pages vibrates with activity and humor, but, as a Chucks girl, I have to say that my favorite two-page spread has the sneakers on it.Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama. He also, however, creates such marvelous phrases that a talented illustrator can walk right in (pun intended), and Bob Staake does.īob Staake takes the witty phrases and amplifies them to the point of the hilarious with his brilliant and silly illustrations. Charles Ghigna creates such wonderful "word pictures" that the poem could stand alone without illustration.
One Hundred Shoes is a clever and rather sweet book in poem. Two things save One Hundred Shoes from falling into that final category: Charles Ghigna's wit and Bob Staake's artwork. They can also be really boring for the adult reader.
They also tend to feature repetition and showcase certain words so that kids can learn to read on their own. They tend to be shorter, so instead of reading three books, we can easily read five books in the same amount of time. And that math topic led to me finding this book.Īlthough my little boy can read only a few words on his own, we have started incorporating "easy readers" into his story times. (My husband called it a centipede - Thank goodness for Google!) Anyway, the multi-footed creature soon became a math topic. Yesterday, my four-year-old son spotted his first millipede. For more information, visit his website at Kennedy Center, American Library in Paris, American School in Paris, and the International Schools of South America. and overseas, and has read his poems at The Library of Congress, The John F. He speaks at schools, conferences, libraries, and literary events throughout the U.S. He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, poetry editor of English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English, and as a nationally syndicated poetry feature writer for Tribune Media Services. Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama.
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