Poet Debbie Hall puts wildlife in the spotlight with 'In the Jaguar's House,' her first book for children
Before she introduces them to the laughing otter, the busy dung beetle and the stunning hummingbirds, poet and photographer Debbie Hall lets her readers hear from a wise human.
There are fan-letter poems, like “Haiku for a Hummingbird,” which captures the dazzling spirit of Hall’s jewellike tufted coquette and white-necked jacobin photographs with these three lines:And in honor of Hall’s portrait of a gleeful-looking giant river otter, the rambunctious “Laughing Otter” poem commands us to indulge in laughs of all sizes — guffaws, snickers, whoops, snorts —“I wanted this book to convey and develop a concern for wildlife and animals and the environment, but I didn’t...
“Like a lot of writers and poets, I was writing a lot of pandemic poems, which is great, but I needed to do something more upbeat,” said Hall, whose poetry has appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual, A Year in Ink, Sixfold, Bird’s Thumb and other journals. Born in Encino and raised in Del Mar, Hall grew up in a family of readers. Inspired by the children’s poetry collections given to her by a book-loving aunt, she wrote her first poem when she was 10.
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