Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets (Hardcover)

Authors: Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, and Marjory Wentworth

Illustrator: Ekua Holmes

Publisher: Candlewick Press (2017)

Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.

Winner of the 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award