They remain bowed for so long without straightening themselves once. They look like heaps of broken glass and their sharp sound of crashing makes one think as if the inner dome of heaven has fallen.Ī load of fallen ice on them brings them down to the withered bracken, a kind of fern growing on the ground. Ice starts falling like crystal shells and shattering together to create an avalanche. The warmth which comes from the sun starts melting the ice covering those birches. The poet minutely observes how the rising breeze cracks the glazed surface made over the birches by snow. He reminds us how on a sunny winter morning, we can often see birches loaded with ice after a rain. When a boy swings in birches, the process reverses when he comes down but the bending of birches due to ice-storms is not the same. He describes that seeing birches bending to left and right makes him think of some boy who swings in them. The poem begins like the poet is in a candid conversation. The poem is written in Blank verse which means metrical sentences without any rhyme scheme. This poem is a perfect example of Frost’s use of conversational language to describe the simplicity of nature i.e.
So yeah.This book is AWESOME! If you loved Smile and Roller Girl and Babymouse, you should DEFINITELY read Swing It Sunny.Largely influenced by the modernist stances of WB Yeats and Thomas Hardy, Frost can show how a human reacts to the universality of Nature especially in an untouched rural setting. Anyway, this book is great- it's definitely worth the eight bucks- I read on Kindle, so the kindle copy was $8, but I'm not sure about the paperback. Is it just me or was Sunny Side Up a lot longer? I mean, I was only in 2nd or 3rd grade, but still. You can't go wrong with Jennifer Holm books! Anyway, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with Swing It Sunny!!! My only critique is that the book is fairly short. This book is good for 8-12 year olds! I fell in love with Sunny's 1st adventure, Sunny Side Up, (which you should totally check out if you haven't already) when I was 8 or 9 yrs old, and I read it multiple times. This book is really good! I was so excited when it came out! I have just started Middle School so this book was really good for me. I think it’ll work best for those familiar with the first book, but I’m sure they’ll enjoy seeing more of how Sunny copes with a difficult situation while still having faith in her family. Otherwise, the art is deceptively simple, approachable, and easy to read with straightforward storytelling and plenty of clear markers of emotional reactions. Plus, that way we get a caption of a drawing of a Pet Rock that says, “The 1970s are crazy!”) (I wondered why it was necessary to explain all of these to the reader, then I realized the target audience was likely born 30 years or so after many of these shows went off the air. Escapist fantasy and light entertainment helps Sunny cope. Holm (they’re siblings) anchors events around a lot of popular culture, with callouts to General Hospital (which the girls make fun of for all the kissing), Swamp Thing comics, The Six Million Dollar Man, Donny & Marie, Gilligan’s Island, and The Brady Bunch.
There’s a cute baby brother, too, whose goofy actions lighten the mood.Īrtist Matthew Holm has an odd tick of often surrounding characters, mostly Sunny, with little parenthetical lines that to my eyes makes it look like she’s shaking or vibrating. They add up to an uncomplicated flow for younger readers, a book that’s able to be picked up and put down easily, with punchlines at the end of most chapters.
This volume, due to the way it’s structured around various incidents with friends and family, is more episodic, with short chapters that jump us through Sunny’s suburban 70s life. She’s no longer as much a part of his life as she’d like to be, although a new friend across the street helps by giving her an athletic outlet. He’s been sent to a military boarding school, which he resents, so even when he visits, it’s not like it was. This one deals with the followup - Sunny is back home, trying to go about everyday life while Dale’s absence continually warps the family structure. That book had Sunny visiting her grandfather in Florida and learning about the problems her older brother Dale struggles with. Swing It, Sunny is the sequel to Sunny Side Up, a powerful children’s graphic novel about coping with family changes.
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