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Poetry Contest for 3rd-8th Grade

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Pets Add Life, a non-profit awareness campaign about the joys of pets, is sponsoring a poetry contest for 3rd-8th graders. This is the eighth year for the contest, and teachers, if your student wins for his or her grade level, you win a $1,000 grant for either pet-related education or a classroom pet. Cool! I […]

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Poetry Friday: Jumping for Joy (by me)

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 For the first April in several years, I’m not traveling doing school visits for 3/4 of the month! So you’d think I’d have some cool, special project for National Poetry Month here on my blog. I am embarrassed to say I do not. However, I do plan to highlight the wonderful offerings of other bloggers who are […]

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Poetry Friday: Spread the Good News

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  Congratulations to Alice Schertle, whose wonderful Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes was one of the winners in the K-3 category of the 2010 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. I blogged about Button Up! here and it’s such a terrific poetry collection. And Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School, by me, was named […]

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The Beehive Is Back in Style

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I found out yesterday through Google Alerts that my poetry book A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets has been shortlisted for the 2011 Beehive Award (Utah’s Children’s Book Award).  Woohoo! Libraries will acquire as many books as they can (it’s a pretty dang long shortlist, with 10 poetry books alone!) and share them with kids, […]

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Poetry Friday: Slobbery (by me)

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  I did a fun Family Reading Night at a local school last night, and for the first time used my poetry treasure chest (more about that soon). The event was great, the kids were terrific, and if I had taken a pic of it, I’d share the fantastic group poem we wrote (shoot!) But […]

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