Steady Hands

Download or read book Steady Hands written by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of free-verse poems, inspired by Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer celebrates workers and the doing of work. The poems are short and direct, with strong, fresh images, and readers can easily imagine themselves in the roles she portrays: welder, librarian, surgeon, retail clerk, camp counselor. The illustrations are as original as the text---amazing multilayered collages made of paper, found objects, ephemera, photographs, dried flowers, and archival images. Steady Hands is sure to inspire discussion, creative writing, art projects, and new answers to the old question: What do you want to do when you grow up?