This book was a delightful find. I'm prepping a school-age haiku program, and will definitely be using this to teach the kids how it works. The haikus are fun, charmingly sweet, and written about things kids can relate to. For instance, this one's paired with an illustration of two kids coloring on the floor, while it's raining outside the window:"your rainbow colorscome out to play when it pours --chase the gray away"While the haikus are bouncy and even irreverent (compared to the far more subtle, more "classic" haikus I've found), they do adhere to a strict 5-7-5 meter. I certainly don't think this is always necessary in haiku, but I appreciate it here for the purposes of education, because I think it will help the kids to work against a firm limitation. This collection covers all kinds of love, from sweethearts to teddybears to food to pets to whatever. Combined with an "I" and "you" that shifted from poem to poem (sometimes the I is the child, sometimes the parent, sometimes the you is a friend, sometimes a sunflower? or is the "I" the parent and the "you" the child? Anyway.) this book feels a little random. The topics (kite flying, hot cocoa, going to school, being sick) are SO familiar that they pretty much tip over from shared experiences into cliche.
What do You think about I Haiku You (2012)?
Darling book that makes a great gift for loved ones or a haiku model for writing.
—vag4me
Cute children's book of short poems about love and loved things/activities
—Rebecca
