{"id":18665,"date":"2024-02-03T21:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/?p=18665"},"modified":"2024-02-03T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T02:40:17","slug":"suzy-bitner-was-afraid-of-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/2024\/02\/suzy-bitner-was-afraid-of-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzy Bitner Was Afraid of the Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poems. Another book I got because it came up in my recent subject search. This book is full of quirky, amusing, and sometimes good-life-lesson kind of poems. About things from a kid&#8217;s perspective- sometimes ironic, or whimsical, or just thoughtful. Not quite as wacky as Shel Silverstein would get, but I have to say the drawing style and the poems reminded me a lot of him. And I enjoyed most of them, to my surprise. I even read a bunch aloud to my twelve-year-old. Sometimes the rhythm was not quite smooth, they don&#8217;t all flow off the tongue easily. Some are quite long and detailed, others just a few short lines, a little observational quip. Disappointingly, the one that grabbed my attention because it happened to be in the jacket description, was a silly short thing about mice roller skating past the traps<em> so fast<\/em> to nab cheese. It didn&#8217;t do much for me. But most of the other poems were much better. There are poems about borrowing an older brother&#8217;s bike, enjoying snowfall with a school closure, suffering braces, being afraid of things (like the bathtub drain- the title poem was a good one!) or a scary neighbor&#8217;s dog. My favorite was one about <a href=\"https:\/\/barbaravance.com\/sailing\/\">sailing<\/a>, I really love the image that last stanza puts in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed from the public library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems. 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