A Year of Reading

  Hair Twins by Raakhee Mirchandani illustrated by Holly Hatam Little, Brown and Company, 2021 review copy provided by the publisher (thanks...

Join us in celebrating Mary Lee's Retirement!  It's a Poetry Friday Takeover in Honor of #MarvelousMaryLee Join in the fun with #Poe...

  From the NCTE Inbox Newsletter, a poetry event that is free and open to the public: Join NCTE and the Library of Congress for  A Conversat...

Let's Dance! by Valerie Bolling illustrated by Maine Diaz Boyds Mills Press, March 2020 review copy provided by the publisher ...

I picked up a few poetry toys at nErDCampMI last week. With Instant Poetry , poetry forms meet multiple choice. You might want to try ...

In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House by Laura Purdie Salas illustrated by Angela Matteson ...

GREAT MORNING! Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong PomeloBooks, 2018 Sylvia Vardell and Janet ...

I was so inspired by the 30 poems Amy wrote about Orion for her NPM18 project. I thought, " What a perfect way to end the year--with...

Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up by Sally M. Walker illustrated by William Grill Candlewick Press, 2018 In the author's blu...

I wrote the post , but I didn't pick the winners...READERS did! Congratulations to all of the winners, and the rest of you -- hold o...

STRING THEORY by Ronald Wallace I have to believe a Beethoven string quartet is not unlike the elliptical music of gossip: one vi...

I'll be rounding up "old school" this week.  Leave your links in the comments.  I'll add them to the post as t...

This week I reviewed poetry books every day. Click on the day of the week to check out the reviews. MONDAY TUESDAY ...

Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths by Marilyn Singer illustrated by Josée Masse Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016 Marilyn ...

Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater illustrated by Dylan Metrano Orchard Books (Scholastic), 2016 This book-length poem pays ...

A Kind of Poetry by Chi Lingyun To discover a tree's memories is impossible.
 To seek a pebble's experience 
is also impos...

Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole by Bob Raczka illustrated by Chuck Groenink Carolrhoda Books, 2014 This is a very f...

Little Poems for Tiny Ears by Lin Oliver illustrated by Tomie dePaola Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014 (In case you are wondering ...

Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko illustrated by Melissa Sweet Candlewick Press, 2014 I don'...

Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian illustrated by Jeremy Holmes Schwartz & Wade, 2014 As I n...