Small Reads for Brighters Days
A new anthology from Lee Bennett Hopkins is always cause for celebration. I Am the Book (Holiday House, 2011, illustrated by Yayo) is even more so because the poems are all about books! This anthology feels a little younger than many of his anthologies–partially because there are more rhyming poems than usual, I think. The great thing […]
Friday, I posted my poem "After the Storm" from PoetryTagTime, the fun, inexpensive (99 cents!), teacher-friendly e-anthology of the 30 poems from Sylvia Vardell’s Poetry Tag feature for National Poetry Month. Yesterday, at the PoetryTagTime Tips blog, Sylvia posted some great teaching tips for teachers to use with my acrostic poem, including a Poetry Performance idea. I love this! When […]
Roger Sutton recently posted about Poetry Tag Time, the e-anthology brilliantly created by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong to try to make poetry more accessible and get it into more classrooms. 30 fun and fantastic kids’ poems for only 99 cents! So I thought I’d share my poem from it here and encourage you all to […]
Tag–you’re it! I’m so excited to be part of PoetryTagTime, a poetry e-book! It’s a groundbreaking project from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. As so many of us despair about getting poetry published, getting it into the hands of kids, Sylvia and Janet took action and created a fantastic e-book. They planned out […]
Earlier this week, I shared how excited I was to get my contributor copies for the new Lee Bennett Hopkins I Can Read anthology, Dizzy Dinosaurs! The poems in here are so cute, from the messy triceratops in Marilyn Singer’s opening “Tricera-Flops” to the dinosaurs who didn’t listen to Mom (and thus went extinct) in […]
I’m so excited! I got my contributor copies yesterday of Lee Bennett Hopkins’ new I Can Read! anthology, Dizzy Dinosaurs. My poem is in there (you know, I had that nanosecond of fear of what if my poem got left out and I’m really NOT in a Lee Bennett Hopkins book) along with tons of other […]
Sharing the Seasons, one of Lee Bennett Hopkins’ several wonderful 2010 anthologies, is a Cybils Finalist and one of my favorite poetry books of the year. It explores all the seasons, and after a cross-country ski outing this morning, I need to share a lovely poem from the Winter section. Winter Home We build our […]
I’m so excited! I got an F&G (a folded and gathered set of printed pages, kind of like an ARC, but for a picture book) a couple of days ago for Dizzy Dinosaurs: Silly Dino Poems. Why is that so exciting? Because it’s one of Lee Bennett Hopkins’ terrific easy reader poetry anthologies and–wait for […]
Last year, at Wild Rose Reader, I won a copy of Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, the new Georgia Heard poetry anthology with a poem in it by Elaine Magliaro. Publication got pushed back a year, and I was so delighted to recently receive my copy from Elaine. What a fantastic […]
