Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse

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.

• Author
• Tamera Will Wissinger, Matthew Cordell

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 128

• Series
• Gone

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780547820118

• Genres
• poetry, childrens, family, fiction, juvenile, humor, nature

• Release date
• 2013