I love how When the Wolves Returned shows how the entire ecosystem of Yellowstone is interdependent. Great text! (Images…not so much, in my opinion.)
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Poetryaction: After reading a picture book, sometimes I jot down a quick poem based on something in the book. It could be inspired by the entire book, the setting, a character, or even just a tiny detail in a picture or a single phrase from the text. I’m using picture books as a jumping off point for poems. I thought this might be something interesting for you to do in your classroom, so I’m going to share some of them here. I’m collecting them on a Pinterest board.
Bookalikes: A lot of times, when I’m reading a book, I think, “Oh, this would be fun to pair with XYZ book!” So I’m sharing those here when I think of them. These have their own bookalikes Pinterest board, too:>)
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Laura,
What a fun poetryaction about the wolves in Yellowstone. Do you ever contact the authors of the books to let them know about your posts? It might be something they’d like to reblog. Maybe you could build your readership. Thinking marketing this morning. Hope this idea spurs other ideas too.
Thanks, Linda–I don’t. I would, time permitting, but there’s just never enough of that commodity! When I post links on Twitter, I sometimes tweet the publisher’s account, too, if it’s one I follow. I DO appreciate the thoughts, though. From a marketing standpoint, that would be smart for my blog:>)
Laura,
What a fun poetryaction about the wolves in Yellowstone. Do you ever contact the authors of the books to let them know about your posts? It might be something they’d like to reblog. Maybe you could build your readership. Thinking marketing this morning. Hope this idea spurs other ideas too.
Thanks, Linda–I don’t. I would, time permitting, but there’s just never enough of that commodity! When I post links on Twitter, I sometimes tweet the publisher’s account, too, if it’s one I follow. I DO appreciate the thoughts, though. From a marketing standpoint, that would be smart for my blog:>)
wonderful poem Laura I LOVE the first 6 lines I have a few poems about wolves that I have written
Thanks, Jessica:>)
wonderful poem Laura I LOVE the first 6 lines I have a few poems about wolves that I have written
Thanks, Jessica:>)
Love your poem–and I love the wolf/yellowstone story. Unfortunately I’ve read recently that it’s not exactly accurate (I think the follow-up studies about the wolf impact on elk and aspen were published after this book, so I’m in no way criticizing the book or author; you can read here if you want to know the more complicated story: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-real-american-hero.html?_r=0) It’s too bad–it’s such a compelling tale for young (and old!) people.
Thank you, Buffy–interesting! And one of the dangers of being a nonfiction writer! I read the book a couple of months ago and would have to re-check it out. I THINK what it portrayed was more based on the *numbers* of elk declining from wolf predation–not the behavior of the remaining elk changing, as this op/ed piece seems to mostly refer to. So even though the elk still stripped the bark, etc., there were fewer of them to do so, and so there was less damage to the trees. But I could be totally wrong:>)
Love your poem–and I love the wolf/yellowstone story. Unfortunately I’ve read recently that it’s not exactly accurate (I think the follow-up studies about the wolf impact on elk and aspen were published after this book, so I’m in no way criticizing the book or author; you can read here if you want to know the more complicated story: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-real-american-hero.html?_r=0) It’s too bad–it’s such a compelling tale for young (and old!) people.
Thank you, Buffy–interesting! And one of the dangers of being a nonfiction writer! I read the book a couple of months ago and would have to re-check it out. I THINK what it portrayed was more based on the *numbers* of elk declining from wolf predation–not the behavior of the remaining elk changing, as this op/ed piece seems to mostly refer to. So even though the elk still stripped the bark, etc., there were fewer of them to do so, and so there was less damage to the trees. But I could be totally wrong:>)