About the book: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty is on the 2016 Pick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. The book is a collection of poems about parallel girls lives with fairy tales. In the author's notes you learn that fairy tales were believed to have been written or told as fantastic stories but under laying was some truth. Christine Heppermann decided to use the back drop of fairy tales to tell the stories of girls lives of today. Each poem is paired with a photograph that adds an interesting element to the poem. Some topics that the poems cover are anorexia, body image, popularity, girlfriends, relationships with boys, beauty, love and giving voice to possible inner thoughts that are not kind. A list of photographs is at the end of the book giving credit to the photo and its name. Also an index of first lines is provided in the back of the book.
Readers Response: Finding poems that connect with YA's can be difficult. The collection of simple poems in Poisoned Apples is a wonderful resource to help bridge the path from childhood poetry to more classics. The way the author interweaves fairy tales and modern girls today creating a variant. For Example, "Blow Your House In" tells the story of a girl dealing with the grip that anorexia is taking on her life and the slow weak changes that happen, told through the three little pigs houses and the big bad wolf.
Book trailer:
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