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Poetry Friday: Spider (Alice Schertle)

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  Keepers (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1996) is an older poetry collection that I have and just love. Alice Schertle is a wizard! As the weather turns cooler, spiders are invading the house. Bigger ones than usual, too. In honor of them, I'm sharing today's poem: Spider Spiderin your mansion airyPatience!It will not be verylongbefore […]

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Poem of the Day: Walk Softly (by Alice Schertle)

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I love the book keepers (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1996), by fantastic poet Alice Schertle (illustrated by Ted Rand). The connection between the poems is tenuous to me. Supposedly, the poems all represent special moments and feelings, or "keepers." It feels more like a marketing add-on than anything inherent in the poems to me. […]

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One Book I Love: Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes (by Alice Schertle)

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Button Up: Wrinkled Rhymes, by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Petra Mathers, is adorable! A book full of mask poems, which I love, all told from the points of view of different articles of clothing. I was going to share "Tanya’s Old T-Shirt," but Tricia already shared it at The Miss Rumphius Effect. So then […]

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