EXPLOSION AT THE POEM FACTORY By Kyle Lukoff, Mark Hoffmann

For EXPLOSION AT THE POEM FACTORY i decided on a very muted palette based on the idea that the book was set in the early 1900's. In order to make the main character stand out against that i made sure to make his coloring clash with the background. I chose a hot pink so that no matter where he stood you would see him.

this book really focused on the words and the complex ideas behind poetry, but they had to represented through visual forms via machines. After lots of research I chose to make a factory that hints at the complex uses of the terms.

Explosion At The Poem Factory
By Kyle Lukoff, Mark Hoffmann
April, 7th 2020 from Groundwood Books

ISBN: 978-1944903749

Kilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons, but when automatic pianos arrive in town, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made.

The foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme, sprinkling in some similes and adding alliteration.

But one day the machines malfunction, and there is a dramatic explosion at the poem factory. How will poetry ever survive?

“Liberal use of terms such as epithalmium and enjambment, both defined at book’s end, will draw precocious kids as well as adult poetry lovers to this friendly introduction to poetry and poetics”. ―Publishers Weekly

“… imaginative and entertaining … An a-peel-ing addition with lots of curricular connections.” —School Library Journal

“Hoffmann brings the foods to life with big, bright, often extreme close-up illustrations,with all-cap hand-lettering adding to the emphatic vibe. No doubt kids will learn a thing or two, and have some light chuckles along the way.” —Booklist