Gone Fishing

For fishing tomorrow it's just us two. Not Mom, not Grandpa, not Lucy. It'll be like playing catch or Painting the garage. Just Dad and Me. Fishing. Using a wide variety of poetic forms quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy's day of fishing. Sibling rivalry, the bond between father and son, the excitement and difficulty -- of fishing all add up to a day of adventure any child would want to experience. Matthew Cordell illuminates this novel-in-verse throughout with his energetic black-and-white line drawings. While each poem can be read and enjoyed on its own, the poems work together to create a story arc with conflict, crisis, resolution and character growth. The back matter of this book equips the reader with a Poet's Tackle Box of tools and definitions for understanding the various poetic forms the author uses in this story.