By the pond of my house
(Baonghean) -Poet Tung Bach's works are always loved by readers, especially young readers. By the pond at home is a collection of poems he recently composed for children.
The collection of poems consists of 44 poems, with many different topics, the poetic language is clear and innocent. The characters in his poems are often familiar animals such as chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles or very familiar objects such as pendulum clocks, pens, erasers... The poetic tone is cheerful and humorous, those objects have been built by the author into lovely character images.
(Children's Poetry, Tung Bach, Nghe An Publishing House, 2012)
Most of the poems are in the form of a conversation, humorous and witty stories. The conversation between a dog and a cat in “The Cat’s Student”, a duck and a chicken in “By the Pond at Home”, “Story by the River”, a termite and a gecko in “Gecko Looking for a Friend”…
The poems also have some interesting dialogues. That is the selection of Tang Monk to go to the West by Hai Dang, Tan Cuong and Vinh in the poem “Without Tang Monk, I Cannot Go to the West”. Or the surprising explanations of the boys in the poems: “The sky is…”, “My name is Cuong”, “The Con Lon archipelago”.
Not only bringing children laughter and joy through humorous stories, the book of poems also helps children gain more awareness of things and phenomena around them. Through "Borrow", "Like", "Roots and Fruits", "Miracles"... children gain more understanding of animals, plants, natural phenomena,...
The poems in the collection By the pond at home have a familiar and familiar folk poetry tone, such as the reverse speech in the poem “The story of the magpie robin”, the six-eight verse form with the rhythm of the cradle in the poem “Lullaby”. Folk tales such as “Putting a bell on the cat”, “The rabbit and the turtle”, “The legend of Treo village” are skillfully transformed by the author into lively poems, helping children understand more easily.
“By the pond at home” with 44 neat poems, in a pretty book, with a cute cover has left a good impression on readers. Nghe An Publishing House continues to strive, to have more good works for young readers!
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