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Day 10: Things to Do if You Are Spring — community edition! [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) These are hard days for writers, aren’t they? Especially ones who aren’t big names. And who have books from last year not selling too well along with books publishing this year and facing extra challenges. (I know, these are hard days for everyone, including mostly […]

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Day 3: Things to Do if You Are Spring and Add Your Own Line #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m so pleased to have a Things to Do poem on the last page of the Spring 2020 edition of Children & Libraries, the ALSC journal. Here’s the first half of it. You can read the full text here: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/cal/article/view/7312/10021 Boy, spring looks a lot […]

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Writing Poetry with Third Graders

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I had the best time at Pinewood Elementary last month. I got to spend two days there, which means that, in addition to two large-group presentations, I did writing workshops with each third-grade class. Love! The staff was amazing and enthusiastic, and the students were incredible. We had the best time. I’m going to share […]

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If You Are a Macaroni Noodle [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) My wheels have been spinning since Tabatha proposed a  mac and cheese Poetry Friday. Why? Because macaroni and cheese is my favorite food. In my childhood, bbq chicken and macaroni and cheese was my birthday dinner every year. Shortly into our marriage, when Randy and […]

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Summer Biopoem and Things to Do if You Are a Firework [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) A couple of weekends ago, I spoke at the Minnesota Kindergarten Association annual conference. For an hour, I shared with 2-300 teachers why poetry matters, what the process is behind my poetry/science books, and other poetry books wonderful for K classrooms (fun to share so […]

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Things to Do if You Are a Minnesota Summer [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) It’s the first Friday of the month, so it’s Poetry Princesses Friday! This month was my choice, and I chose the Things to Do form with a seasonal angle. (See page 4 here for a lesson plan.) This is the poetic form of […]

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Wearing the Moon [Poetry Friday]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and Happy Poetry Friday! (You probably know what St. Paddy’s Day is, but if you’re wondering what Poetry Friday is, click here.) I’m wrapping up a week of Moon pictures, celebrating my If You Were the Moon launch party, which is happening at the very moment this is going live! My […]

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It’s My Book Birthday!

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Whee! Today, If You Were the Moon comes out! I am so excited to know that this book is out in the world now (floating above the world?). I am so tickled to have collaborated on this beautiful book with Jaime Kim, editor Carol Hinz, and many behind-the-scenes people at Lerner. It’s a genre-bending work […]

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Things to Do, by Elaine Magliaro [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Hooray for Elaine Magliaro! I am so happy to write this post, because it’s celebrating a book I have looked forward to for a long time! For many years, Elaine Magliaro blogged incredibly regularly about writing poetry for and with kids. As an elementary educator […]

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Poems by Young Writers at the Minnesota Children’s Book Festival

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On Saturday, the 17th, I spent the day in Red Wing, MN, at the Anderson Center for the Minnesota Children’s Book Festival. Lisa Bullard and I both manned the So You Want to Be an Author tent. We spent the buggy afternoon talking with adults who want to write for kids and also writing poems […]

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