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Mosquitoes and Mexican Free-Tailed Bats [Poetry Friday]

September 19, 2019 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This week, I’m delighted to share Marilyn Singer’s new poetry collection, Wild in the Streets: 20 Poems of City Animals! (ill. by Gordy Wright, published by Quarto Publishing) I’ve been a fan of Marilyn’s poetry for such a long time. She writes in such a […]

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Penguins, Nerds, Swing Dancing, and the Road to Hell – NCTE, part 2

November 30, 2015 By Laura

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I shared a bit about my NCTE Friday last week, and I just wanted to tell you about Friday night, which was a great time. I went to the Penguin Nerdy Cocktail Hour, which was a cocktail party (generally, my least favorite thing in the whole world). It was fun! I now know enough people […]

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Great Article About Poet Marilyn Singer

November 3, 2015 By Laura

NCTE is happening in my hometown of Minneapolis later this month, and one of the many things I’m looking forward to is the Children’s Literature Lunch on Saturday. There, poet Marilyn Singer will be announced as the winner of the NCTE Excellence in Poetry for Children Award. Whee! I’m so happy for Marilyn, whose fabulous […]

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Rain Forest, by Marilyn Singer, pt. 2

May 5, 2014 By Laura

How To Cross a Pond by Marilyn Singer ill by Meilo So [Knopf, 2003] I shared a beautiful poem called ?Rain Forest? by Marilyn Singer on Friday, and here are a few of my thoughts while reading it. All her beautiful language really gets me. The ground as a sponge that drinks in clouds?how amazing […]

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[psvid] “Jump!” (Marilyn Singer)

April 18, 2013 By Laura

Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play?(Clarion, 2012), by Marilyn Singer.?Marilyn is the queen of fun poetry book concepts, and she and librarian Barbara Genco created and coordinate the ALA Poetry Blast! This collection is […]

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Poetry Friday: Desert Moon (by Marilyn Singer)

October 14, 2011 By Laura

Marilyn Singer's latest free verse poetry collection, A Full Moon Is Rising (Lee & Low, 2011), is framed by a set of lovely poems about a girl watching the "Broadway Moon" from New York City. In between the opening and closing poem, customs and celebrations and dreams of the moon are brought to life in poems set across […]

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Poetry Friday: Two Twosomes from Marilyn Singer

September 30, 2011 By Laura

  Marilyn Singer comes up with the best ideas. Hello! Reverso fairy tales in Mirror Mirror? I often read her books and think, I wish I'd thought of that. I just read Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom (Alfred E. Knopf, 2011). Each poem is a piece of pun-filled perfection from one animal to its […]

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CYBILS!

February 15, 2011 By Laura

Yesterday, the Cybils were announced! A huge congratulations to all the winners–you can find the complete list of winning books here. It was a treat to be on the Poetry Panel, and I want to give a special shout-out to the winner in the Poetry category: Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verseby Marilyn Singer, […]

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Poem of the Day: The Doubtful Duckling (by Marilyn Singer)

April 28, 2010 By Laura

  I just read Marilyn Singer‘s fantastic new picture book, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse (Dutton, 2010, stunningly illustrated by Josee Masse). Oh! Marilyn has invented a new kind of poem, the reverso. Take a poem, place the lines in reverse order, fiddle with the punctuation and capitalization, and make a brand new […]

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One Book I Love: I’m Your Bus

June 30, 2009 By Laura

I’ve been reading and rereading books by the other participants in the Poetry Blast (an upcoming event at ALA Chicago), and one new book I love is I’m Your Bus, by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Evan Polenghi. What a fun book! The narrating school bus has such a great voice, like a teacher who’s always bustling around […]

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