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This Is Just to Say
If you’re looking for a nice happy book
put this one down and run away quickly
Forgive me sweetness and good cheer are boring
Inspired by William Carlos Williams’s famous poem ”This Is Just to Say,” Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine delivers a wickedly funny collection of her own false apology poems, imagining how tricksters really feel about the mischief they make. Matthew Cordell’s clever and playful line art lightheartedly captures the spirit of the poetry. This is the perfect book for anyone who’s ever apologized . . . and not really meant it.
- Sales Rank: #191465 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-27
- Released on: 2013-08-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Gr 4-6-These spare, sly poems use inference to tell tall tales of deceit and betrayal among family members, friends, and fairy-tale characters. "I have shortened my nose with your saw/because honestly telling lies is so much fun./Forgive me I don't care about becoming a real boy."α(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review
“A playful primer on insincerity for budding poets. This mischievous collection is sure to engage the devilish side of readers of all ages.” (Kirkus)
“Readers will enjoy sharing the surprising selections, which will make them rethink what they thought they knew.” (Booklist (starred review))
“Levine models more than 40 poems after William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just to Say,” taking its quasi-repentant tone to a whole new level. Poetry fans fine-tuning their sense of sarcasm need look no further. ” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“Gleeful false-apology poems. Taking as her model William Carlos William’s poem about purloined plums, “This Is Just to Say,” Ms. Levine has devised verses written from the point of view of any number of unrepentant malefactors. Matthew Cordell’s comic drawings leaven the mordant wit.” (Wall Street Journal)
“Gail Carson Levine’s gleefully snarky poems in “Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It” go a long way in turning this high-minded literary form into a joy for youngsters – and their adults.” (Sacramento Bee)
“The collection overall possesses appealing irreverence and vitality. The open and breezy format adds accessibility, with each spread offering one or two of the terse verses offset by Cordell’s humorous art, monochromatic, wittily scrawled images often containing their own exclamations or sound effects.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
Praise for A Tale of Two Castles:“A thoroughly delicious romp from the author of Ella Enchanted. The plot is winningly unpredictable, the characters easy to relate to, the humor subtle and the action well-paced. Newbery Honor-winner Levine has once again breathed new life into old stories.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
Praise for A Tale of Two Castles:“Readers are certain to be pulled, like Elodie herself, right into the midst of the rich and swirling life of Two Castles.” (School Library Journal)
Praise for Writing Magic:“Levine encourages readers to take their work seriously while remembering to have fun. An informative and encouraging must-read for young writers.” (School Library Journal (starred review))
Praise for Writing Magic:“A veritable treasure trove of advice and guidance for writers across a range of ages.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
Praise for Writing Magic:“Writing Magic is a great introduction to writing for children. The “voice” is upbeat and not condescending. It is clearly written, and includes examples when they are needed. As far as I know, there is nothing else like this available.” (Harold Underdown, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books)
About the Author
Gail Carson Levine's first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include Ever, a New York Times bestseller; Fairest, a Best Book of the Year for Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and a New York Times bestseller; Dave at Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; A Tale of Two Castles; and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction books Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink, as well as the picture books Betsy Who Cried Wolf and Betsy Red Hoodie. Gail Carson Levine and her husband, David, live in a two-centuries-old farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
Matthew Cordell spilled a whole bottle of ink while drawing this book. Forgive him, white carpet is painfully boring. Matthew lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, writer Julie Halpern, and their daughter, Romy. He is the author and illustrator of Trouble Gum and the illustrator of Toot Toot Zoom!, Mighty Casey, Righty and Lefty, and Toby and the Snowflakes, which was written by his wife.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Faux apology accepted
By E. R. Bird
I tend to run my bookgroup for kids between the ages of 9-12 like a gentle dictatorship. I choose the books, the kids vote on them, and so it goes. Now if the kids had their way we'd be reading fantasy novels day in and day out every single week. With that in mind, I like to try to make them read something a little different once in a while. For example, one week I might try to get them to read a Newbery winner. The next I would try to encourage them to dip into some nonfiction. One type of book I haven't had the nerve to attempt for years, though, is poetry. Finding a really good, really interesting, really smart book of poetry for kids of that age is tricky stuff. Poetic tastes vary considerably, so it's best to start with a book with a hook. And by hook or by crook, Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It is basically the answer to my prayers I've been seeking all these long and lonely years. It has everything. Humor, engaging illustrations, a clever premise, potential (and very fun) applications, and a passive aggressive streak that's nearly a mile long.
Do you know that old William Carlos Williams poem about the plums in the icebox? The one that calls itself "This is Just to Say"? When you think about that poem, I mean really think about it, it's just the most self-satisfied little number you ever did see. Williams is clearly not sorry, though he included the words "forgive me" in there. With that as her inspiration, Gail Carson Levine has penned forty-five or so false apology poems modeled on Williams'. The rules are simple. "The first stanza states the horrible offense. The second stanza describes the effect of the offense. The last stanza begins with `Forgive me' and continues with the false apology, because the writer is not sorry at all." Mixing together fairy tales and silly situations, Levine's poems span the gamut, from the cow in Jack and the Beanstalk taking issue with her monetary worth to a girl's pets asking pseudo-forgiveness for enjoying her diary's contents. Saying sorry without meaning it has never been this charming.
On the book's dedication page read the words "To Susan Campbell Bartoletti, who led me down the poetry path." I am currently in the process of putting in an order with FTD in the hopes of sending Ms. Bartoletti some flowers of my own. Whether intentionally or not, she has been at least partly responsible for helping to bring to this world a poet of undeniable talent. We all know Ms. Gail Carson Levine for her fantasy novels. Her Newbery Honor winning Ella Enchanted is probably her best known work. But when I saw that she had gone into the poetry business I couldn't suppress a groan. Great. An author who thinks they can write. Whooptie-doo. Can't wait to see what recycled trope makes its 100th appearance on the printed page yet again. Imagine my surprise then when I saw not only the idea behind the book (snarky in its mere conception, which is no easy task when you work in the world of juvenile literature) but the poems themselves. Ladies and gentlemen if I blame Ms. Levine for anything it is for denying the world her drop dead gorgeously twisted point of view for quite so long.
To back myself up I present to you the very format of the book itself. First up, the Table of Contents. It pretty much just consists of the words "This is Just to Say" over and over and over with different sizes and fonts and page numbers. You blink. You look at it again. You might shake your head slightly, and then you turn the page. Right off the bat you then encounter a pretty strange take on Sleeping Beauty, but it's just kind of funny. Then you read a different poem about a brother committing foul, but not uncommon, acts upon his sister's toys. Then you turn the page and that's when the fun really starts. It's a poem from the point of view of Snow White in which she lists the dwarfs poor hygiene and ends with "Forgive me / I'm making myself ugly / and leaving / with the witch." This is accompanied by a picture of the crying dwarfs watching a now seriously ugly Snow White (she's been crone-i-fied) arm in arm with the equally ugly evil witch. When I read this poem I immediately thought to myself, "I have never, ever, seen anyone do that before." Turn the page and here's a take on Jack and Jill where a gorilla purposefully causes Jack's tumble via banana peel so that he can make Jill his girlfriend. Again my brain does a bit of a tarantella within my cranial cavity.
While reeling the reader encounters one or two more poems and then suddenly the Introduction to the book appears. It's introduced by a poem in which Ms. Levine explains that her editor did not want the introduction at this point in the book. "Forgive me / I also shredded / her red pencil and stirred / the splinters into her tea." After that we encounter Mr. William Carlos Williams, the original poem that inspired all of this, along with a very good two-page encapsulation of what these poems are and how one would go about making one. Teachers desperate for poetry assignments should rejoice. Levine spells out the format, even going so far as to say that you can "abandon the form completely and write false apology poems in your own cruel way." Hey, man. Whatever gets `em writing. After that we plunge back into the woman's poems and, by extension, her brain.
Generally speaking they're pretty universally brilliant though once in a while a poem slips up. There's one about that old song about the bear going over the mountain that ends a bit oddly and doesn't pair as smoothly with its accompanying illustration as it might. And sometimes you do wonder if kids will get the references. Levine never names the fairy tales directly, often requiring you to figure them out for yourself (helped in no small part by Matthew Cordell's valiant efforts to avoid drawing Disney characters). They'll probably get the Beauty & the Beast poem in which Beauty proves a little too delectable. They may even understand the Pinocchio poem too. The Rumplestiltskin poem, however, stumped me for quite some time and I'm still not entirely certain I understand why he's in the Dwarf Witness Protection Program at the end. Ah well. Collected poems are rarely equal in their magnificence, even when penned by a single creator.
The idea to pair these poems with the art of Matthew Cordell was certainly a good idea. Now Mr. Cordell has somehow managed to illustrate what looks to be something like FOUR books in 2012 alone. In this one, though, he's really let his freak flag fly. Channeling everyone from Quentin Blake to Shel Silverstein, Cordell fills these pages with images as silly and as sardonic as Levine's poems require. He even adds little touches of his own whenever possible. A graveyard poem in which a thief confesses crimes to the shocked skeletons present shows the lawbreaker reclining against tombstones sporting names like "Sgt. A.B. Solv" and "Honorable Conrad Fess". Once in a while I don't quite understand what he's doing with his art (why are children attacking a lion when the accompanying poem is about how that lion just ate some kid's parents?) but generally speaking it's the top.
When you sit down and think of it, this book is almost the antithesis of that other work for children This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman. Might be funny to pair these two together (though the universe might explode). And if you're looking for smart works of poetry that could lead to writing assignments, consider pairing this book with Marilyn Singer's Mirror Mirror or Bob Raczka's Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word. If you're looking for works of children's literature that have mentioned the William Carlos Williams poem in question you might want to check out Love That Dog by Sharon Creech or A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jennifer Fisher Bryant. And if you're look for a book that's like this one in any way shape or form then all I can say to you is present to you this little poem of my own:
Forgive me
the book is too good on its own
and I am far too lazy to do any research
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Irreverent poems styled after William Carlos Williams
By Sunshine on a Rainy Day
Every poem in this book is styled after a poem written by William Carlos Williams. Here is an example: "They sing the bear went over the mountain/which leads him to see other mountains/Forgive me: no one sings the ending, the landslide and the dead bear."
I was hoping for laugh out loud funny with this book and instead got mostly irreverent and mean. Most of the poems make fun of fairy tales. From Little Red Riding Hood (Grandma to Wolf) "When you arrive I will not be lying in my bed/where you hungrily hoped to find me/Forgive me: tell my granddaughter better one of us should live."
This book is advertized for ages 8-12 which is perfect since they are the age that likes this kind of irreverence the best. However, be aware of the negative content.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
for a certain type of "humor"
By Constance777
My 7-year old son LOVED this book... first of all, he loves poetry, secondly, he understood the roughly fixed "form" - and he was cracking up time after time - running through the house to share multiple "This is Just to Say" poems. It's a strange one - and I wasn't sure if he'd like it (as he usually likes right-out ryming poetry, i.e., Ted Sheu) - but he did!
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