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While Ada and Jamie's mother only appears in the first and last few pages of The War that Saved My Life, her presence is a constant throughout. Her abuse of Ada is sometimes horrific, but also sparsely and effectively employed by Bradley. Witnessing this abuse allows the reader to be patient with the often unlikable Ada and also helps the reader understand her decisions, like the choice not to learn how to read or write, and her reactions, like the catastrophic break down she has when, on Christmas Eve, Susan gives her a handmade, green velvet dress, telling her that she is beautiful when she tries it on. Her mother's words, "You ugly piece of rubbish! Filth and trash! No one wants you with that ugly foot!" run through Ada's head and her roaring screams and panic are more understandable. It is even almost understandable that, throughout most of the novel, Ada believes that all the new things she is learning, from walking to horseback riding to reading and writing, will prove her worth to her mother and make her love her. With this possibility always out there, letting herself get attached to Susan is almost impossible. Then, there is always the knowledge of what her mother has thought of her and how she has treated her. Halfway through the novel, Ada says, "I wanted Mam to be like Susan. I didn't really trust Susan not to be like Mam."
But, Ada does get attached and she does grow stronger, physically and emotionally, over the course of this very rich and detailed story. And, while at first it seems like the war is a far off thing, it does come to Kent in a shattering way. After the Battle of Dunkirk, Kent finds itself overwhelmed by injured and dying soldiers, Ada heading into the village to help where she can. There is even a triumphant moment where, following the government dictate to say something if you see something, Ada not only must assert herself, but also let a prejudiced, condescending adult know that her foot is very far away from her brain, something she has heard Susan say, in order to be taken seriously. As life grows more dangerous in Kent and Susan refuses to send Ada and Jamie away, Ada thinks to herself, "It was hard enough to cope with Susan. How would I ever cope without her?"
I was in tears and sobbing for the last half of The War that Saved My Life, especially the final pages. Bradley delivers a very satisfying ending to a deeply satisfying book, one that makes me want to turn around and read it all over again. I am so grateful that this book won a Newbery honor, among other well deserved awards, because it means that it's likely to fall into the hands of children over and over for decades to come. I can't wait to get a copy for my library - I usually donate books I buy for myself to read to my library, but I am keeping this one! - and see what my students think of it!
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Winner of the National Book Award, the Newbery Honor Medal (her third) and the Coretta Scott King Award for Authors, brown girl dreaming is worth every medal and more. Like the Newbery Medal winner this year, Kwame Alexander's Crossover, Woodson's book is a verse novel - two verse novels wining ALA awards in the same year! While Jacqueline Woodson's memoir in verse, brown girl dreaming, is
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I am embarrassed to admit that I had The Crossover by Kwame Alexander sitting on my bookshelf for almost a year before it won the Newbery Award this year. I read the blurb about basketball phenom Josh Bell and his twin brother Jordan and couldn't get excited, even though I LOVE verse novels and am continually amazed by them. It's just that I have zero interest in sports and sports stories.
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John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (it's been on my shelf for an embarrassing amount of time: review to come!) Newbery Honor Books: El Deafo by Cece Bell click here for my review Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (also winner of the National Book Award. Review to come!
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Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgewick is the winner of the 2014 Printz Award, the Newbery for Young Adult books. While preparing to write this review, I was taking a look at past winners and surprised by how many of them I have reviewed - and loved - here and also pondering the current trend of adults reading YA literature. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the review for a list of these
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Howdy, Campers!
First of all, I'd like to apologize for pushing the "publish" button instead of the "save" button when I was composing this post yesterday. As a result, my weird and clearly unfinished post went out to our subscribers above Carmela's wonderful Wednesday Writing Workout (which I highly recommend reading.) Oy!
Onward...to Poetry Friday!
Breaking News: the American Library Association is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Award at its annual conference! Right now--right this very minute!
Until 1958, an artist could not be awarded more than one Caldecott Medal unless the committee's vote was unanimous. In his letter responding to the news, Robert McCloskey expresses his surprise at winning the award a second time.
And check-out Brian Selznick's design of the 75th anniversary logo.
this year's Newbery/Caldecott banquet...
But where to start--what sound? How about applause--applause for all Caldecott winners (and those hard-working Caldecott committee members)? There are so many different kinds of applause, including this and this--which is the applause before a concert begins. That's the sound that stuck with me. Here's my rough draft:
by April Halprin Wayland
On stage:
tune strings,
star in the wings.
In your seat:
fleet squeaks,
copious creaks.
Clap-clap-clap!
Toe-tapping beat,
Impatient feet!
Rise in your seat,
stomp on the floor,
awaken your core!
And even before his wild art starts,
roar
for more!
poem © 2013 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
TeachingAuthors will be taking a vacation from July 1-July 12, 2013. Ta-ta! Bye-bye! Take time to write! See you soon, Raccoons!
By April Halprin Wayland, who thanks you from the bottom of her little heart for reading all the way to the end.
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In case you missed them, the 2013 ALA Awards (Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, etc.) have been announced!
Celebrate great children’s book writing and illustration by checking out this year’s winners and honor books here: 2013 ALA Award Winners
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NEWS
For Immediate Release
January 23, 2012
American Library Association announces 2012 Youth Media Award winners
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Howdy, Campers! Author and illustrator Barney Saltzberg is a generous soul, and in his Friday the 13th interview, he offered an autographed copy of his fun and amazing book, BEAUTIFUL OOPS to one of our readers.
And the lucky, randomly chosen winner is...
Here's Sarah's Beautiful Oops:
My oops moment happened when I was a very junior editor at Sesame Street. I was editing my first big book, a SS songbook (because I was the only editor in my dept who could read music and play piano). I went over to Jeff Moss's house (composer of Rubber Duckie) to show him some song arrangements, and when we got to People In Your Neighborhood (his song) we both stared at the composer credit, which read Joe Raposo (his long-time rival and writer of Bein' Green, among many others). Jeff was notoriously curmudgeonly, and I knew there was a good chance he would flip, even though of course it was just galleys and there would be plenty of opportunity to change it. So I quickly made a joke about it (along the lines of how interchangeable he and Joe were, whatevs). After five tense seconds, he grinned broadly. And we became fast friends.
So...drawing the winning name, watching the exciting announcements of the ALA awards (I felt as if I were in the audience!) and reading Carmela's, Mary Ann's, JoAnn's, Esther's, and Jeanne Marie's fabulous and thought-provoking posts about awards, got me to thinking about winning...
...which inspired this poem for Poetry Friday, graciously hosted today by Jim at HeyJimHill!
WINNING
by April Halprin Wayland
I sit under this tree
to sit under this tree.
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I'm hosting the Kidlit Interview Wednesday round-up here on our TeachingAuthors blog this week. Actually, I'm writing this post on Tuesday afternoon, but I'll schedule it to go live just after midnight (with my fingers crossed) so that early risers and bloggers around the world can share their links whenever it's convenient. If you have an interview you'd like to share, just post a comment below containing the url. The interview should meet the criteria listed at the end of this post. I'll check back during the day to add your links to this post. If you have a blog related to reading, writing, or publishing books for children and you'd like to host Interview Wednesday, visit the official Kidlit Interview Wednesday sign-up page.
You'll find the interview roundup below. First, I want to say a bit more about the ALA awards, the topic of our current series of posts. Yesterday was the first time I've watched the announcements live (thanks to the ALA webcast). I joined the program in progress, just as they announced that the winner of the Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement was Ashley Bryan. A shiver of delight went through me--I'd heard Ashley Bryan read years ago at one of our Vermont College residencies. His reading was electrifying! His love of story and poetry and literature shone through in his voice, gestures, and facial expression. I'll never forget that day. So yesterday when they announced the winner of the Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, I was thrilled to hear not only his name, but also the cheers and applause of all the attendees expressing their approval. Congratulations to author-illustrator Ashley Bryan on his well-deserved award!
Yesterday, Mary Ann shared the titles of the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, and Printz winners. You can read the entire list of ALA award winners in their official press release. You can also watch the webcast of the ALA award announcements.
If you're looking for more great titles to read after you finish the ALA award winners, head over to the official SCBWI blog for links to other award lists. Or consider signing up for the Newbery reading challenge being hosted by a K-5 teacher-librarian at the Watch. Connect. Read. blog or the Caldecott reading challenge organized by a K-8 library media specialist at LibLaura5.
And now, for the Interview Wednesday roundup so far:
- Be sure to read April's great interview with author-illustrator Barney Saltzberg here on our TeachingAuthors blog. Barney has some terrific advice about writing rhyming stories, and he shares a fun writing exercise. He also talks about the inspirat
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In case you haven't been parked in front of a computer since the crack of dawn, hoping for leaking news from the Newbery-Caldecott committees, here they are--the 2012 American Library Association award winners:
Newbery--Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt
Honors--Eugene Yelchin--Breaking Stalin's Nose
Thanhha Lai--Inside Out and Back Again
Caldecott--Chris Raschka for A Ball for Daisy
Honors--Patrick McDonnell--Me...Jane
Lane Smith--Grandpa Green
John Rocco--Blackout
Coretta Scott King Award Author: Kadir Nelson for Heart and Soul
Honors--Patricia McKissack--Never Forgotten
Eloise Greenfield--The Great Migration
Illustrator--Shane W. Evans for Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Honors--Kadir Nelson--Heart and Soul
Printz--John Corey Whaley for Where Things Come Back
Honors--Maggie Stievater--Scorpio Races
Craig Silvey--Jasper Jones
Christine Hinwood--The Returning
Daniel Handler (aka "Lemony Snicket")--Why We Broke Up
Congratulations, one and all. And now let the speculations fly! All over the country book lovers are cheering or gnashing their teeth or wondering why it will take "one to three weeks" for Amazon to get the book in stock. (Answer...the publisher was caught without sufficient inventory for a huge sudden sale rush.)
I shall keep my own observations to myself, except for the fact that I have never been right about the big awards. The closest I have gotten to predicting correctly is for the honors books (this year I had Inside Out and Back Again on my list). Mysterious are the ways of The Committees.
Other observations--this is the first time in a long time that there was not one single dystopian novel on the list! Can life be getting better?? There were a lot of historical novels (yippee, since I write historical novels). Only one truly contemporary book (Why We Broke Up). All the award winning illustrators were also the authors of their books. What does this mean? I have not the slightest idea.
All I know is that I have a lot of good reading ahead of me (I did read all the Newbery honors and winner in advance, but none of the Printz books).
Mary Ann Rodman
P.S. You can still enter our drawing for an autogra
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This morning I got up at 5 a.m. to see (via webcast) the 2012 winners of the biggest awards in children's publishing--the American Library Association (ALA) awards. The film industry has their Golden Globes® and their Oscars®, and we have the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, the Coretta Scott King Award, and the Michael J. Printz Award. Unlike most other book awards, the major children's book awards given by the ALA have no lists of finalists or nominees. It's a surprise every single year (with plenty of speculation beforehand) and I kind of love the secrecy. This year's announcement had both the unexpected and the "ah, of course" books on the lists (including some 2011 Best of the Month titles)--you just never know who is going to win what. Congratulations to this year's winning and honored authors and illustrators:
2012 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:
- Winner!: A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
- Honor: Blackout by John Rocco
- Honor: Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
- Honor: Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell
2012 Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:
- Winner!: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
- Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Honor: Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
2012 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:
- Winner!: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
- Honor: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
- Honor: The Returning by Christine Hinwo Add a Comment
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This morning I got up at 5 a.m. to see (via webcast) the 2012 winners of the biggest awards in children's publishing--the American Library Association (ALA) awards. The film industry has their Golden Globes® and their Oscars®, and we have the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, the Coretta Scott King Award, and the Michael J. Printz Award. Unlike most other book awards, the major children's book awards given by the ALA have no lists of finalists or nominees. It's a surprise every single year (with plenty of speculation beforehand) and I kind of love the secrecy. This year's announcement had both the unexpected and the "ah, of course" books on the lists (including some 2011 Best of the Month titles)--you just never know who is going to win what. Congratulations to this year's winning and honored authors and illustrators:
2012 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:
- Winner!: A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
- Honor: Blackout by John Rocco
- Honor: Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
- Honor: Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell
2012 Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:
- Winner!: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
- Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Honor: Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
2012 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:
- Winner!: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
- Honor: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
- Honor: The Returning by Christine Hinwo Add a Comment
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Well, I sure didn't see that coming.
On the plus side, I'm celebrating Printz Honors and Odyssey Honors for Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races! And Newbery Honors for Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again!
And I'm excited to add to my must-read list:
- I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (Geisel Honor)
- Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (Sibert Winner)
- Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Pura Belpre Winner and Morris Honor)
- Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (Printz Winner and Morris Winner)
What did y'all think of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards? Which awards had you standing and cheering? Which books do you think were overlooked? And which titles are you now excited to dive into?
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The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced this week.
Caldecott Award Winner for 2011:
A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead (You may remember this book from my CYBILS shortlist.)
Caldecott Honor Books:
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill
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Information from the ALA's Press Release for the Youth Media Awards. With, when applicable, my comments, including links to reviews or quotes. And I'm going to try to read all the books below I haven't read yet!
John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature
Winner:
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. "That is a lot of hype to live up to, and it's sometimes unfair to the book that you go in expecting greatness instead of just hoping for a "good read." So when the book DOES deliver everything people said, and more? You know it's a damn good book."
Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. "Claudette Colvin should be required reading in law schools."
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. Henry Holt and Company. "For having such fully realized characters; and for Kelly not telling us everything about Callie and her world and family, and rather telling us just enough; this is one of my favorite books of 2009."
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers.
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. The Blue Sky Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children
Winner
The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney. Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers.
Honor Books:
All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon. Beach Lane Books.
Red Si
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In catching up with my Internet reading as I enjoy a day off from work, I read School Library Journal's Heavy Medal blog post on predicting the ALA winners.
And the Schneider Family Book Awards are mentioned! (I have an entire post on the winners, don't worry.). Usually, these ones are overlooked. Jonathan Hunt says: "SCHNEIDER FAMILY.
Does anybody care about this one? Okay, maybe some of you do. I'm going to guess MARCELO for the teen category, ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS for the middle grade category, and I'm completely clueless about the picture book category. Suggestions?" It's not the only "does anybody care" award; the Carnegie Award got a similar comment.
Sigh. For those of you who are new to the blog, and me, I'm on the Schneider Family Book Award Committee; I work for a regional library for the National Library Services for the Blind & Physically Handicapped; and the Schneider Family Book Award is for "The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences." I urge you to read the Manual, which explains the background of this Award and why, indeed, it matters how the disability experience appears in books and why an award for this does matter.
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ALA Award Winners Announced...
Here are the highlights:
The 2010 John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature went to When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead.
The 2010 Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children went to The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney.
The 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults went to Going Bovine, written by Libba Bray.
For a complete list of ALA medalists, click here.
Congratulations to all the outstanding authors and illustrators who were recognized!
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Want to know what the ALA award committees were thinking?
Find out.
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Congratulations to all the winning and honor ALA books. I'm sure someone will blog a detailed and unbiased analysis of the results, but here's my utterly personal view of some of yesterday's choice moments.
1) My editor, Cheryl Klein, edited TWO of the winning books:
A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce took the William C. Morris award for a debut YA novel
and Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi and translated by Cathy Hirano took the Mildred Batchelder award for the "most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States."
I love it that Cheryl and Arthur A. Levine Books seek out translations and first time authors.
2) Last year, I psychically blogged about the Newbery winner, Neil Gaiman, after I heard him read from The Graveyard Book at the National Book Festival last fall. Unfortunately and non-psychically, the Festival's bookstore had long lines and thus I have no book. Here's what I said:
The session with Neil Gaiman was underway when I found the Children and Teens Pavilion, but I could've told you who was speaking without even entering, because the audience overflowing the venue was....20-somethings in funky hats and cool clothes. They absolutely didn't mind that he wasn't promoting an adult read like American Gods, but The Graveyard Book, his novel with a 14-year-old protagonist. He read a funny excerpt in which the boy seeks the help of a long-dead but still highly verbose poet. Gaiman is a natural dramatic reader. He never veers into camp, he never shortchanges a word or a pause, and he has complete confidence in his material. He took questions, and his answers were perfectly encapsulated stories, one of them involving an ancient human elbow bone. My favorite line: when talking about why he doesn't outline, he says he loves to find out what happens, except that three-quarters of the way in, he sometimes feels like "he's jumped from a plane and must knit himself a parachute on the way down."
3) I'm tickled that Marla Frazee, who is illustrating my friend Liz's next book, took a well-deserved Caldecott Honor for A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. I got to hear her speak about its creation at the SCBWI conference in L.A. last August and have been a fan ever since.
4) My book club, DC Kidlit, chose to read honored books We are the Ship and The Underneath this past year. Because of them, I don't feel like quite such a loser in the "have I read it yet?" department. We're meeting this Sunday to discuss all the books and I can't wait to hear everyone else's personal take on everything.
Because it is, isn't it? Personal. That's what makes this business great and what makes people tear their hair out. I, for one, love the excitement.
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Oh, my double mocha was divine! The real whipped cream was so rich and stiff that it stayed afloat on the dark espresso sea as serenely as a sugar cloud.
The table was piled with books! We found each other by them, in fact. Who else would be carrying Hugo Cabret or Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! into a restaurant and waving them about?
The conversation was scintillating! Tales of book ordering frenzies after the ALA awards so wild they would win a bond trader's admiration. Stories of manuscripts being finished, started, revised, sold, dreamed about. Newbery and Caldecott winners passed from hand to hand. Confessions about what we had read and what we hadn't. Who loved what (and who didn't) and why. Cheeky ARCs for 2008 hobnobbing with seasoned 2007 titles.
Yes, folks, the DC Kidlit Brunch was everything I could've hoped for. If you live near the DC area, please come out next time. Email Caroline Hickey to be added to the A-List. (Hey, around here, we're all A-List.)
The Brunch Crew, after being instructed
to hold a book we had NOT yet read
From left to right:
Susan (Wizards Wireless) holding The Wednesday Wars.
Louise Simone holding Henry's Freedom Box, written by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson. I would buy this book for the cover image alone. Stunning.
Caroline Hickey (Author of Cassie was Here and member of those fab Longstockings) holding The Wall by Peter Sis
Gina Montefusco (PBS) holding Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
MotherReader and Tami Lewis Brown (of the soon-to-be-released Soar, Elinor!) both holding Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Anamaria Anderson (Books Together) holding Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains by Laurel Snyder of Kid*Lit(erary)
Sara Lewis Holmes (me!) holding an ARC of A la Carte* by Tanita Davis (Finding Wonderland)
*But since I had PRE-ORDERED this book already, I let someone else take the ARC home. I could hardly stand it, but I did it. (After peeking at a few of the recipes.)
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April - A poem of anticipatory-applause! And applause for you! Audiences can be so grateful, and this fact fills me with hope. I really dig that first stanza - that tuning - it almost feels like we're given a listen into the dressing room. Thank you! My hands beat for you for today and for everything here at Teaching Authors! Have a glorious summer break. Happy PF!
John Rocco's smile throughout his video was proof of the power of Caldecott. Loved the rhythm and joy iof poem....enjoy your summer break!
Bravo! (Sound of loud applause here.) Thank you for sharing all the Caldecott info, too!
Catherine
Love the ending of your poem, "roar, for more"-exactly like the sound. And thank you for all the Caldecott info. I hope they'll tell more about this morning! Happy vacation, April!
I love your celebratory poem. It has such great sounds.
Enjoy your vacation!
Such joy and a wonderful upbeat rhythm in your poem, April. Love it! I join in the applause for the Caldecott anniversary. Thanks for the great info!
"Awaken your core" - I love that! Your poem takes me back to my days of playing in the high school orchestra. There is a sense of anticipation that builds to the roar at the end. Lovely!
Clapping here too!
Great Poem! Loved the climbing rhythm crescendo right up to the end.
Dear Amy, Tara, readingtothecore, Linda, Katya, Jama, Robin, Ruth and Michelle--thank you for coming by. Me and my blogmates appreciate your reading our posts SO much!
xxx
Oh, rats. I meant "My fellow blogmates and I"...
I swear, I should have gotten a ticket from the Grammar Police...
Such fun!
Thank you for bringing this fantabulous 75th event to us.
And in such a fetching, poetic way.
In my writing, such as my 1st ch. book I sent out (fingers crossed) this wk, I think about how to weave sounds into the story.
But... duh.. never realized I can use a sound as a writng prompt or poetry starter. Now I have a new idea, to write a poem about a sound. Thank you!!!
Her is my impromptu poem inspired by this post.
Wheee!
What is that?
Feeling free
You and me
At the beach
In the park
On a walk
in the dark
Up a hill
Down a street
Moving on vacation feet!
- Jan Godown Annino
Happy vacation to the always fantabulous Teaching Authors!
Love your poem. I can hear it loud and clear. Thanks for the info on the Caldecott.
I also want to thank Jan for her response sound poem about vacation. Such a world of talent in this Poetry Friday community!
Hooray for the Caldecott's 75th!
Love your poem!
Its refreshing!
Thank you!
Jan--three cheers for sharing your poem with us!
And Margaret, Mary Lee and Teresa--we really appreciate you reading and commenting on our posts--thank you.
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