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Dot Day and Giveaway Winners for Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle!

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It’s International Dot Day–a great day to think about how you and your students might make your mark on the world! Read more here. Here are the two dots I’ve made in years past. And it’s the day I’m announcing the 5 winners of signed copies of Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle: How Animals Get Ready for […]

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The Opening of Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle + a Giveaway! [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Last week, my final picture book of 2019 published (I blogged about it here), and it’s a rhyming nonfiction book. I thought I’d share the opening two quatrains as my poem this week and invite you to enter a giveaway that ends Sunday […]

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Seed Pod (15 Words or Less Poems)

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Isn’t t this close up of a seed pod lovely? This image makes me think of several things:

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Snakes with the Poetry Princesses [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was, apparently, my choice. Last week, Sara emailed the group to say, “Are we still doing Laura’s challenge? September – Laura – A poem comparing something with a snake — some snake pairing you think has […]

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ELO Light Show [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  Summer’s over, folks! What a whirlwind mine was, and you’ll probably learn more about it from the photos I share here on coming Thursdays:>) My husband and I […]

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It’s My Book Birthday for SNACK, SNOOZE, SKEDADDLE: HOW ANIMALS GET READY FOR WINTER + a Giveaway

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I am so excited to say that my fourth and final picture book of 2019 comes out today! You might be thinking (if you live up north), “Seriously, Laura, you want us to think about winter on the very first day of school?!” Well…yes. I do. SNACK, SNOOZE, SKEDADDLE: HOW ANIMALS GET READY FOR WINTER […]

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Roller Coaster [15 Words or Less]

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Henna [15 Words or Less]

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Camping in Fall and Lee Bennett Hopkins #PoetryFriday

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Rearview Mirror [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  We live near our state capitol building, and the other day as we were driving somewhere, I saw the building neatly framed in my rearview mirror and snapped […]

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