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[psvid] “Werewolf Warning” (Bobbi Katz)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Sterling, 2009), by Bobbi Katz.?The premise of the collection is that a kid finds his uncle’s (shoot, I think it’s his uncle–I don’t have the book in front of me!) diaries. His […]

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Poem of the Day: Cyclops (by Bobbi Katz)

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  The funny and clever The Monsterologist (Sterling, 2009) is an adventure in poetry. It’s the memoir (ghostwritten, hehe, by Bobbi Katz) of a scientist who has spent his life studying monsters. Each monster gets his or her own poetic tribute, and here is the Cyclops I’ve been in sunny Sicilywhere the cranky Cyclops roamwith one […]

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One Book I Love: The Monsterologist

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One book I’m loving right now is The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme, ghostwritten (ha!) by Bobbi Katz and illustrated by Adam McCauley. I met Bobbi at ALA in Chicago and bought this fun collection at her signing. The premise is that a person who studies monsters is looking back over his or her life […]

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