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Changing to Moth (a What’s Inside poem)

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Hi, teachers! Here’s the answering quatrain to yesterday’s What’s Inside couplet!   Changing to Moth ? Caterpillar started out, spring green and bright, It’s changing to moth, it’s arriving quite soon With pale wings to flutter through silvery night And flash in the path of the cool distant moon         A Note […]

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What’s Inside This Paper Balloon?

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Hi, teachers! I’m working on a new project, to be unveiled soon, and I’m going to be sharing bits of it here over the next couple of weeks. Here’s a couplet question. Stay tuned tomorrow for the answering quatrain:>)   What’s inside of this tiny cocoon? This soft, silky, fuzzy, white, paper balloon?     […]

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Go Fly a Kite, by Laura Purdie Salas [Poetry Friday]

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Today’s poem comes from the fabulous Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. This latest offering in their Poetry Friday Anthology series is chock-full of poems exploring everything from physics to scientific methods to nature to machines to scientists. There’s a teacher’s edition, and then grade by grade student editions–with […]

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Fireworks, by Rebecca Kai Dotlich [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Fourth of July! I’m sharing a poem today by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, from her wonderful book, Lemonade Sun?(Wordsong, 2001).? I could take or leave fireworks, for the most part, but this poem makes an explosion in my brain–a beautiful, noisy, poetic burst. When I first started reading children’s poetry, I made little photo albums […]

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Curly-leaf Pondweed, by Joanne Linden [Poetry Friday]

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I’m sharing a poem from Fiddleheads to Fir Trees: Leaves in All Seasons?(Mountain Press Publishing, 2013),??by Joanne Linden, a friend of mine and former crit group buddy. The glorious artwork by Laurie Caple (cover image below does not do it justice!) combined with lovely poems by Joanne, combined with leaves–well, how could you go wrong? […]

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Bathtub Car, by J. Patrick Lewis [Poetry Friday]

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J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian–TOGETHER? Yep! They have a new funny car poetry collection out called POEM-MOBILES! It’s full of whimsical, punny poems by Pat and Douglas–because what else would you expect when these two madly funny men (funny madmen?) get together? And it’s illustrated with’very cool, can’t-even-figure-out-how-to-describe-it art by Jeremy Holmes. (Explore the […]

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“Ocean Tales,” by Laura Purdie Salas [Poetry Friday]

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view cop(R(. I’m sharing an unpublished poem today, one I originally wrote as part of the collection that became BookSpeak! Poems About Books (Clarion, 2011).? I hope you like it! Ocean Tales Each book is a drop in an ocean of choices, A glimpse of a maybe that someday might be. A watery world full […]

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Blush (by Laura Purdie Salas) [poetry friday]

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I’ve got a poem up as poem of the day?at PoetryMinute.org, the site started by U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt that features a children’s poem every day. Today, starting at 7 a.m. and for 24 hours, my poem “Blush” from Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School, will be up.??Stampede! recently went […]

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[poetry friday] Ice Bridge (by Jane Yolen)

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Happy Poetry Friday! Here’s a poem from one of my favorite anthologies–the oldie but goodie Once Upon Ice?(Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, 1997, edited by Jane Yolen, with stunning photos by Jane’s son, photographer Jason Stemple. The poems in the anthology were written in response to the photo. I love writing that way, and you can see […]

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[poetry friday] This Is the Book and PoetryMinute.org

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I’m thrilled to have a poem of the day up at PoetryMinute.org, the daily children’s poem site started by U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt. Today, starting at 7 a.m. and for 24 hours, my poem “This Is the Book” from BookSpeak! Poems About Books, is featured. I’m not going to post the text of […]

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