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Poetry Friday: School Supplies

September 10, 2009 By Laura

 

All week, I’ve been sharing school-themed poetry books I love. And of course, I couldn’t leave out School Supplies, a Lee Bennett Hopkins anthology. Here are just a couple of the poems I love from this book:

Homework

It rustles it
shifts with no wind
in the room to
move it
Listen!
the blank white
paper
needs your attention.


–by Barbara Juster Esbensen (author of Swing Around the Sun, one of my all time favorite poetry books

Classroom Globe

Spinning, spinning,
round
and round,
a swirl of blue,
a whirl of brown;
mountain ranges,
oceans,
lakes,
islands,
foreign countries,
states.

Spinning, spinning,
stop!
Then linger.
Trace the earth
beneath
one finger.

Spinning, spinning,
round
and round,
a swirl of blue,
a whirl of brown.

Spinning, spinning,
round
and round.

–Rebecca Kai Dotlich (one of my all time favorite children’s poets), all rights reserved

This is a gorgeous anthology that makes me see the magic in everyday school objects, and the magic in every day. It’s from 1996, and I’m not sure if it’s still in print. But if you can get your hands on a copy, don’t miss the opportunity!

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at the fabuloso Wild Rose Reader today!

Tagged With: Barbara Juster Esbensen, Lee Bennett Hopkins, poetry books, Poetry Friday, Rebecca Kai Dotlich

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