I’ve wanted to review Rutherford B., Who Was He?: Poems About Our Presidents for a long time. I requested my library buy it way back when I first heard of it last summer, and I even tried to nominate it for a Cybils. (It was published after the cutoff date, so I will be … [Read more…]
This is a post I dug out of the archives and updated. For the past few years I’ve tried to give at least a small part of our school time each week in April to sharing poetry with my girls. This year, however, since we will be acclimating to being a family of six, I’m … [Read more…]
I’ve made a concerted effort to read more poetry to my children this National Poetry Month, and I’m ending the month by posting a little review of a delightful book entitled A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon. (I just love the assonance and alliteration in the title, don’t you?) … [Read more…]
George Washington Carver has completely captured by imagination, so it is fitting that I picked up a volume of poems about his life this National Poetry Month. I hardly know what to say about it. It is good–really good, in that sharp-intake-of-breath kind of way. It’s written from a multitude of perspectives, from the man … [Read more…]
To say that I am excited about this book is an understatement. I love Joyce Sidman‘s poetry, so choosing her Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems to kick off National Poetry Month was a no-brainer. Reading her poetry simply feeds my love of nature, and because love of both poetry and nature is … [Read more…]
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