PEELING THE ONION is a smorgasbord that offers a selection from a table laden with a great variety of verse and a taste of many experiences. Some of the experiences will be familiar, some will be entirely new. Here is another of Ruth Gordon's anthologies in which she shows her respect for young people by selecting poems not originally written for them and poems from many different times and places. PEELING THE ONION is a celebration of the unexpected joys to be found in that most economical and precise of forms: poetry. 1993 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL) 1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) Author Biography: Ruth Gordon is the compiler of Under All Scilences: Shades of Love, which was named a Best Book of the 80's by both School Library Journal and ALA Booklist. She is also the compiler of Time is the Longest Distance. Ms. Gordon livs in Sonoma County, CA.PEELING THE ONION is a smorgasbord that offers a selection from a table laden with a great variety of verse and a taste of many experiences. Some of the experiences will be familiar, some will be entirely new. Here is another of Ruth Gordon's anthologies in which she shows her respect for young people by selecting poems not originally written for them and poems from many different times and places. PEELING THE ONION is a celebration of the unexpected joys to be found in that most economical and precise of forms: poetry. 1993 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL) 1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) Author Biography: Ruth Gordon is the compiler of Under All Scilences: Shades of Love, which was named a Best Book of the 80's by both School Library Journal and ALA Booklist. She is also the compiler of Time is the Longest Distance. Ms. Gordon livs in Sonoma County, CA.
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