A Year of Reading

Unsplash photo by NordWood Themes Autumn Cadenza Oak leaves drift down, a brown rustle. Crickets are hushed. Only sound -- plop ...

Click to enlarge  Click to enlarge I'm tickled pink and proud as punch! I also can't wait to dig into the book an...

World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of by J. Patrick Lewis illustrated by Anna Raff Candlewick Press,...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by  /Sizemore/ TRAFFIC COP Drivers think the traffic cop is totally about the, "STOP!" St...

Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs by J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins Charlesbridge, 2012 review c...

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! edited by J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. ...

Two of children's literature's most prolific poets have three new books out this spring. The first they wrote together. The other...

August 26 is National Dog Day . To honor the day, J. Patrick Lewis kindly sent this poem. And wasn't it serendipitous that just recen...

from HAPPINESS by Raymond Carver ( read the whole poem here ) Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early ...

Tugg and Teeny: Book One (I Am a Reader) by J. Patrick Lewis illustrated by Christopher Denise Sleeping Bear Press, 2011 review copy pr...

Countdown to Summer: A Poem for Every Day of the School Year by J. Patrick Lewis illustrated by Ethan Long Little, Brown Books for Young Rea...

Mom and I went out to eat here... Right next to here... Where I noticed this... And lookie who I saw! That's J. Patrick Lewis and his da...

I had just about the best poetry day ever yesterday! It started at Cover to Cover bookstore with Tim Bowers and J.Patrick Lewis for the lau...