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[psvid] “Blustering Buster” (Linda Ashman)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from M IS FOR MISCHIEF: An A to Z of Naughty Children(Dutton, 2008), by Linda Ashman. Linda is such a fun and creative rhymer. As with Douglas Florian, one of my favorite rejections was when an editor compared my […]

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Poem of the Day: My Best Buddy (by Linda Ashman)

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  Linda Ashman is such a lovely writer. In prose, she manages to pack so much into so few words, and that goes far toward explaining why her poems are fantastic. Stella, Unleashed: Notes from the Doghouse (Sterling, 2008, illustrated by Paul Meisel) is a rollicking collection of poems written from a dog’s point of view. […]

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Poetry Friday: The (Almost) Perfect Host (by Linda Ashman)

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  Stella, Unleashed (Sterling, 2008) is a fun picture book poetry collection by Linda Ashman.  It features clever and heartwarming poems written by Stella, a newly adopted dog. I wish you could see the hilarious illustration (by Paul Meisel) that goes with this poem! Picture a woman flat on her back by the front door, one shoe knocked […]

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