From the Heart: On Being the Mother of a Child with Special Needs
Although it looks like a small-format picture book for children, this coy and derivative collection of "light-hearted verse" is intended for young adults. Each cliche-ridden verse is faced by a slick commercial painting thick with heavy humor: the milk-white muzzle of a cat and pink snout of a pig are heart-shaped; the poet's "mind's eye" floats in a blue sky, where the bodies of two dragonflies form a segmented heart (dragonflies, we're told, "mate on the wing!" and then, "when secure in their embrace, / Procreation's taking place"). Even when the tongue-in-cheek humor is obvious--"Say that you will be my mate" says the lion who cannot hide his "main love"--this gift book unabashedly apes the puns found in penny valentines. Ages 12-up.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.