Behind the Wheel: Poems about Driving - Paperback

by Janet Wong (Author)

In this collection of 36 poems (plus a new author's note at the end of the book), award-winning poet Janet Wong covers familiar territory: everything from parents as air bags ("in your face") to car shows to cop stops, hitchhiking to unlucky license plates, parking manners, crashing, insurance, and learning to drive. This book will remind drivers of all ages of their own funny and poignant driving stories and inspire you to write some of your own; a great gift for new drivers. Award notes: Behind the Wheel was an ABA "Pick of the Lists" and an ALA/YALSA "Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers."

Author Biography

Janet S. Wong (www.janetwong.com) is the author of more than two dozen books for children and teens. She has been honored with the Claremont Stone Center Recognition of Merit, the IRA Celebrate Literacy Award, and her appointment to the NCTE Commission on Literature. A frequent speaker at schools, libraries, and conferences, Wong has performed at the White House and has been featured on CNN, Fine Living's Radical Sabbatical, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her poems have been showcased in some unusual venues, such as 5,000 subway and bus posters in NYC (as part of the "Poetry in Motion" program) and on a car-talk radio show.