Small Reads for Brighters Days
Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Last month, I shared Kate Coombs’ gorgeous new picture book, Breathe and Be (Sounds True, 2017). I think a lot of you connected with that post and the book, and I’m happy to share a bit more from Kate. We both had other blogligations (yep, […]
Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Poet friend Kate Coombs sent me a copy of her new picture book, Breathe and Be (Sounds True, 2017). It came in the mail on a busy day (is there such a thing as an un-busy day?), and I was going to wait until the […]
Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. We’re winding down into the last full week–I hope you’re having a great month! Today’s poem comes from Water Sings Blue (Chronicle, 2012), by?Kate Coombs. Kate is a magical writer–I hope you seek out both her poetry and her prose. It’s all […]
I’m highlighting poetry books?on the CYBILS shortlist–the ones that?I’ve read?but haven’t shared?here yet. Last week, I shared a poem from?Douglas Florian’s UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings. These week I’m sharing one from Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems, by Kate Coombs, beautifully illustrated by Meilo So (Chronicle, 2012). I love the ocean. I grew up in […]
Last week, I finished reading The Runaway Dragon, by Kate Coombs. I only became aware of Kate and this book because of the wonderful poems she’s been sharing in various online poetry stretches/exercises. I thought this was a picture book when I put it on reserve at my library, but it’s a middle-grade novel. A […]
