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Poetry Friday: Acrocanthosaurus (by me)

Earlier this week, I shared how excited I was to get my contributor copies for the new Lee Bennett Hopkins I Can Read anthology, Dizzy Dinosaurs! The poems in here are so cute, from the messy triceratops in Marilyn Singer’s opening “Tricera-Flops” to the dinosaurs who didn’t listen to Mom

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Poetry Friday: A Sale!

   I’m extremely excited to be able to share, finally, that I just signed and returned a contract to Clarion for a second picture book poetry collection! This collection of poems about books has kind of an interesting genesis, as I wrote 13 of the poems to submit for an

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Do Buses Eat Kids? Poems About School

  Here’s the next book in my series of 6 Capstone poetry books. I wrote this collection after And Then There Were Eight: Poems About Space. I had requested this theme of school poems to be kind of near the end of the set of six because I had a

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Seed Sower, Hat Thrower: Poems About Weather

  Here’s the next book in my series of 6 Capstone poetry books. After the fall poems, I headed into the weather batch of photos. This group was full of more stunning images. I was so glad I got to start with two subjects–autumn and weather–that really appealed to me.

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Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems about Fall

I’m continuing on here with chatting about each of my 6 Capstone poetry books. Today, I wanted to share a little bit about Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights, the very first book I wrote for this series.  I chose this topic, out of the six topics, as my first manuscript to work

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And Then There Were Eight: Poems About Space

  I wanted to blog just a little bit about each of my Capstone poetry books as I get my author copies. Each had its own joys and challenges (some more so than others!). I shared my basic process in an earlier post. Here are a few tidbits just about

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