Welcome, and happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m so happy you’ve dropped by. Whether you’re a regular participant in the Poetry Friday world, or you ended up here from a search or a link, please know that we’re a welcoming community! Read, comment, think, share, and enjoy!
I have an extra tidbit for you this week. It’s a video from Bloomsbury introducing my next picture book, Flurry, Float, and Fly! The Story of a Snowstorm. It’s SO gorgeously illustrated by Chiara Fedele, and I can’t wait to share it later this year. I have just a very few f&gs to personally give away. (Bloomsbury sent out most of them :>) If you’re a blogger interested in writing a feature about the book in late September or October and in sharing your post/reviews, let me know in the comments. I’ll pick a few names at random to match the number of copies I have. I’m out of state, so I’m not actually sure how many I have! I’ll announce people next week, but I probably won’t send them out until mid- to late-summer. So let me know if you have any fun ideas for sharing this book. Thanks!
Ooh, and it’s up on Amazon for pre-order! (Pre-orders help authors enormously. So, if it looks appealing, I’d love it if you pre-ordered or recommended that to others. Thank you so much!)
Now for Friday’s skinny. I’ve mentioned I’m in Florida this week, and everything is certainly greener than in Minnesota. When I left home on pre-dawn Monday, hardly anything was leafing out. All the green was evergreens, which I love! But of course it looks like summer down here in Florida. And while I’m not a fan of heat nor endless summers, I do love seeing leafy friends down here :>)
You can see all my poems for this month here.
And for lots of wonderful poetry, don’t miss the Poetry Friday Roundup with poet-artist Jone Rush MacCulloch!
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The new book looks gorgeous!! Something to look forward to this Fall for sure. 🙂 Thanks for today’s skinny, too — love those “tiny chariots”!
I enjoyed your delightful snow video, Laura! Glad you are enjoying the green in Florida. I like the sound of “leaves I love.” xo
What a wonderful video! Thanks for sharing it with us. The illustrations do indeed look gorgeous.
I love the “tiny chariots” in your poem, too!
Ah those green chariots…and your forthcoming snow book looks to be a flurry of goodness, Laura. Thank you! xo
I’ve been in San Diego this week and I’m with you on soaking up the green! (Although things were really starting to pop in Ohio when I left…)
Congratulations on your new book! And, I love your green poem. “tiny chariots” is such a neat way to think of leaves… I’m now imagining ants in a “chariot race” on a breezy Spring day!
Congratulations on your upcoming book release, Laura! I would love to do a review for you and your book- us upper mid-west people need to encourage a love of snow — right?! (I’m not sure you remember, I live in the Northwoods of WI). I’m also out of town today — in Colorado — and it’s brown here as well! It even snowed today while we were at Great Sand Dunes National Park! Enjoy the green and sun in Florida!
Hope your green chariots roll you safely back home when it’s time, Laura & Yay! for Easter Weekend immersion in all growing green outdoors of our Florida, at Spring. I would love to receive the F&G. A promotion idea would be to borrow snow globes from your pals and … well, that’s as far as I got with that. I know I’ve seen a craft online somewhere, one time, for students to make their own snow globes. My other ideas are likely already on your list: have students make paper snowflakes/ serve little meringues that look like tufts of blown snow / provide a word puzzle of “snow’ in other languages… You are going to have an avalance of fun with this one — BRAVA!
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