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Teen Read Week: Poem #2 "Future Hoopsters" by Avis Harley
It's time for our second installment in our poems for Teen Read Week and the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy...
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Teen Read Week: Poem #3 "How Romantic Can You Get?" by George Ella Lyon
Here's the third poem in my series for Teen Read Week on the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while...
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Teen Read Week: Poem #4 "Spiral Glide" by Mary Lee Hahn
Here's the fourth poem in celebration of Teen Read Week and the theme "Get Away @ the library" which is intended to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build...
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Teen Read Week: Poem #4 "Racing the Clouds" by Jacqueline Jules
Here's the fourth poem in my series for Teen Read Week on the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while...
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Teen Read Week: Poem #6 "Texas, Out Driving" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Teen Read Week continues with the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while reading for the fun to it....
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Teen Read Week: Poem #7 "Dracula" by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Here's the final poem in my series for Teen Read Week on the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while...
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Celebrating Day of the Dead
I love Halloween! I love making costumes and trick or treaters and candy and skeletons and pumpkins! Living in Texas, I also enjoyed discovering the tradition of the Day of the Dead-- a time to...
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Book Links: Playing Tag with Science Poets
I just got my copy of the November issue of Book Linksand I was so tickled to see that my usual poetry column was a featured article this time! Woo hoo! Thanks to the 15 poets who graciously...
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Science + Poetry + Movement
I just presented a session at an area conference of the National Science Teachers Association in Philadelphia (along with Janet Wong) and what a great crowd we had! Plus, walking the exhibit hall I...
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Thankful
Time again to pause and think about the many things we are grateful for in our lives-- like this online community of poetry lovers, for example. Thank YOU for continuing to support my little blog and...
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Launching the "remix" of science poetry for KIDS
Janet (Wong) and I are so excited to announce the launch of our latest venture! (Yes, that is Janet being excited!) It's The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for KIDS.This new...
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National Cocoa Day
Various sources claim that either December 12 or December 13 is National Cocoa Day. Here in Texas it's warm again (near 80 degrees!), so it's not exactly ideal cocoa drinking weather, but I am going...
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A Christmas Poem
Can you believe that Christmas is next week? If you celebrate, do you decorate a Christmas tree? Ilove the tree tradition and I have several different ones in my house (including an aluminum tree with...
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Poetry at the YMA
Just a week ago I was in Boston for the midwinter conference of the American Library Association. I was lucky enough to co-chair the Morris Seminar alongside the amazing Deb Taylor and we had a great...
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Sneak Peek list for 2016
It's time again to post my annual "sneak peek" list of all the poetry for young people that will be published in the coming year(that I know about, thus far). This includes poetry collections,...
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Celebrating Multicultural Children's Book Day
It's time to celebrate Multicultural Children's Book Day. This is a celebration of diversity in literature for young people launched by children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump...
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Ready for Spring? Celebrating Groundhog Day
I can't believe January is almost over, can you? Now that I've gathered my list of forthcoming poetry for young people this year, I'm working on getting my hands on the actual BOOKS! Hope to post more...
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Celebrating Black History Month with Poetry
February-- Black History Month-- is a great opportunity to showcase all the wonderful poetry created by African American poets who write for young people and there are so many great choices! Of course,...
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Cybils Poetry Valentines!
The Cybils Awards winners will be announced on Sunday, Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. The Cybils awards (or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards) "aim to recognize the children's and young...
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Blog Tour: NORMAL NORMAN
Welcome to the first stop on the blog tour for Normal Norman (Sterling Children's Books @SterlingKids) by Tara Lazar (@taralazar) founder of PiBoIdMo, and illustrated by S.britt (@StephanBritt) and due...
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