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[Nonfiction Monday] Art from Water Can Be… and Art/Text Activities

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Welcome to Nonfiction Monday! I’m sharing a piece of near-final?art from my forthcoming Water Can Be… (Millbrook Press, 2014) today. A while back, I shared a couple of wonderful sketches from the illustrator, Violeta Dabija. Recently, Carol Hinz, my super-smart Millbrook editor, sent along a piece of almost-final art to look at, and it’s art […]

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[Good News] “Winter Window”

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I’m excited to have a poem in Cricket Magazine.?It’s one I wrote a number of years ago, back when we had old double-paned windows with bad seals.?Every winter, the hot air from the house would meet the cold air outside and, between the two panes, condense into moisture, freeze into frost particles?and make the most […]

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[Nonfiction Monday] Write a Poem Step by Step and Happy News!

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Welcome to Nonfiction Monday! I have a two-parter today. 1) I want to share Write a Poem Step by Step, by JoAnn Early Macken, author of many fun nonfiction books for kids as well as lovely picture books like Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move. JoAnn is a poet and has written a “simple, […]

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[My Writing Life] I’m In the Journal of Children’s Literature!

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I don’t think I ever had a chance to share this last fall. The NCTE‘s Journal of Children’s Literature featured one of my poems! I was so excited that they wanted to share a poem from BookSpeak! Part of what made it even more pleasing was that the other poem shared in that issue was […]

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[Poetry Friday] CYBILS Finalists!

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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate it, and that everybody had a terrific New Year’s. I am sick with the flu and wasn’t planning to post today. But, I’m so excited that BookSpeak has made the shortlist for the CYBILS Poetry category–what an honor! So I wanted to share this list […]

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[Nonfiction Monday] Eureka!

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?I am SO excited to announce that BookSpeak! Poems About Books (Clarion, 2011) was awarded a Eureka Gold Medal for excellence in nonfiction. This award from the California Reading Association is for?every book that is not expressly fiction.?Yay! And Dare to Dream…Change the World (Kane Miller, 2012, edited by Jill Corcoran), a beautiful, inspirational?anthology of […]

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[Poetry Friday] Sea Change (Another Rachel Carson poem)

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Last Friday, I shared a poem I wrote about Rachel Carson. That poem appeared in Cricket Magazine. Today, I’m sharing the second Rachel Carson poem I wrote (this is when I was working on poems for Dare to Dream). I always knew that a time hook was great for articles, but it helps with poetry, […]

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[Poetry Friday] Rachel Carson: Reborn at Sea

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While working on poems to submit for Dare to Dream, the fantastic new anthology edited by Jill Corcoran, I wrote two poems about environmental pioneer Rachel Carson. Jill chose a different poem, but I’m excited to say that both my Carson poems will be shared publicly. This first one, a triolet, is in the September […]

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Minnesota Book Awards!

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I just realized I never blogged about the Minnesota Book Awards! After BookSpeak! Poems About Books won the Children’s Literature category, it was a whirlwind of email and Facebook congratulations (and I’m still afraid I missed thanking some people). I just wanted to share a few pictures from this wonderful night and say thank you […]

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Poem-a-Day: #15

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atop your shoulders, taller than I hoped to be, I see other worlds –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- Cue sappy poem music. But BookSpeak! won the Minnesota Book Award (Children’s Literature category) last night, and I’m in a floaty/sappy mood today! And in that banquet hall full of writers and readers and booksellers […]

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