Time to get ready for the weekend!
Kick up your feet and find a good place to read.
Sharing #booklove for your classroom or library.
Spotlighting a book or two because these books deserve the spotlight!
April is National Poetry Month. Whether you celebrate poetry all year or just this time of year, here is a roundup of books you might try! These books are all student tested and are standouts in their category.
Multiple Poetic Forms
Gone Fishing
by Tamera Will Wissinger
illustrated by Matthew Cordell
The Poem That Will Not End
by Joan Bransfield Graham
illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker
Poetry Collections
When Green Becomes Tomatoes
by Julie Fogliano
illustrated by Julie Morstad
Changes: A Child's First Poetry Collection
by Charlotte Zolotow
illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke
Lyrical Poems
Raindrops Roll
by April Pulley Sayre
Sweep Up the Sun
by Helen Frost and Rick Lieder
Water Can Be
by Laura Purdie Salas
illustrated by Violeta Dabija
For Poem in Your Pocket Day (this year - April 21)
Pocket Poems
by Bobbi Katz
illustrated by Marilyn Hafner
A Poem in Your Pocket
by Margaret McNamara
illustrated by G. Brian Karas
And please don't leave out this gem. A beautiful book to use to show that poetry is all around you when you look and listen.
The word choice and phrasing is gorgeous.
And the illustrations are poetry in their own right.
Did I convince you yet?
Daniel Finds a Poem
by Micha Archer
Happy April!
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