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My local indie bookstore's most recent Shelf Awareness issue features Nina Katchadourian's new SORTED BOOKS, an insightful and fun introduction to the idea of rearranging books to form dialogues, jokes, fragments, questions and poetry.
Buy Nina's book at your favorite indie bookstore, or from Schulers, where I sip tea and write books.
Travis Jonker at 100 Scope Notes (now part of the School Library Journal blog family) has been displaying book spine poetry for years, too. And he's put out a call for entries.
Every other time he called for entries I told myself I was too busy and couldn't participate.
Well, I am still busy.
(This is March Is Reading Month! Charlie and I trekked through rain, sleet, and snow to speak to zillions of schoolkids about how to become better writers. And I am on deadline for the 6th Ellie McDoodle book.)
But this time I heed Travis's call.
My book spine poem is about Ellie McDoodle and her love for taking a notepad into nature and documenting what she sees -- and the line at the end exhorts us all to follow her.
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The book titles, top to bottom:
Picture This (by Molly Bang)
The Call of the Wild (by Jack London)
In the Nick of Time (Ed: Anne Van Wagner Childs)
Someone Like You (by Sarah Dessen)
Ellie McDoodle (by Ruth McNally Barshaw)
Alive (by Piers Paul Read)
Awake to Wildlife (by Tim Nowicki)
Go Girl! (by Hannah Storm)
Loving the Earth (by Frederic Lehrman)
Thinking Visually (by Mark Wigan)
Pencil Sketching (by Thomas C. Wang)
Pictures of Hollis Woods (by Patricia Reilly Giff)
Great Expectations (by Charles Dickens)
The World of Incredible Outdoor Adventures by Field & Stream
Star in the Forest (by Laura Resau)
Now We Can Go (by Ann Jonas)
Try your own Book Spine Poetry! Tell Travis about it.
Take a notebook out into the woods. Tell me about it.
Now we can go!