A Year of Reading

all the small poems and fourteen more by Valerie Worth illustrated by Natalie Babbitt Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994 Are you ready for Poem...

Hoop Kings by Charles R. Smith Candlewick Press, 2004 Hoop Queens by Charles R. Smith Candlewick Press, 2003 I don't know much about bas...

Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures by Julie Larios illustrated by Julie Paschkis Harcourt, 2008 Sometimes you just have to be ...

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH AN OLD RED SHOE by Anna Alter is not a poetry book. But a poem introduces each page.  This book is "a green activ...

Omnibeasts: Animal Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian Harcourt, 2004 A. It wouldn't be National Poetry Month without Douglas Florian...

The little orange fur-ball stuck in a cage, the little orange fur-ball sleeping in a rage. *** The cat is tiny all bright and gold while it ...

I don't spend a lot of money on poetry books for myself. I enjoy poetry but I am not one to sit down with an entire book of poems. I ha...

Good Books, Good Times! selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins illustrated by Harvey Stevenson Harper Collins Publishers, 1990 While Inner Chimes (...

There has not been much talk of songs during National Poetry Month. I have found that so many of my students buy into poetry when they reali...

Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Stephen Schnur illustrated by Leslie Evans Clarion Books, 1999 I've written before about my pet peeve wi...

Inner Chimes: Poems on Poetry selected by Bobbye S. Goldstein illustrations by Jane Breskin Zalben Boyds Mills Press, 1992 I shared a poem f...

TREE by Jane Hirschfield It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. (the rest of the poem is here and the round up this wee...

The library at our school looks out to a great courtyard. This week, there were so many new birds out there. You could see and hear them, e...

A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms selected by Paul Janeczko illustrated by Chris Raschka Scholastic, 2005 Okay, I'll...

The fun about shopping for books at a conference, is that I often find a book because some other teacher is buying it or reading it. That is...

Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons by Rob D. Walker illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon The Blue Sky Press (Scholastic) April, 2...

We are so lucky in Columbus. Each year, The Thurber House host a children's author for a month in its Writer in Residence program. This ...

On the Farm by David Elliott illustrated by Holly Meade Candlewick Press, 2008 This is a great book of poetry for the youngest readers. The ...

If you know and love the book POCKET POEMS , you will be thrilled to know that now there are more! In MORE POCKET POEMS , Bobbi Katz pulls ...

Maceration of Money The George Eastman House Photography Collection, Flickr Commons MONEY by Dana Gioia Money, the long green, cash, stash, ...