| 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 Kristy Dempsey’s ending “Dinosaur History.” Here’s my contribution: |
Acrocanthosaurus
I can spell
jaws
claws
I can spell
hunt
grunt
I can spell
flame
name
But–
I cannot spell
my
long
long
name.
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved?
What’s really cute is the dino illustration by Barry Gott with an acrocanthosaurus wearing a Hello, My Name Is tag that has several attempts at writing his name, all scractched out because they’re spelled wrong!
Ben at The Small Nouns has the Poetry Friday roundup today. Enjoy!