Welcome to day 5 of Children’s Book Week. There are only two days left in this year’s Children’s Book Week and two wonderful companies sponsoring giveaways: Chronicle Books and Capstone. The featured books are all new this year, coming direct from the publisher.
No review today, just a recap of all you can win this week.
Here are the prizes you can win CLICK HERE TO ENTER
** 3-month subscription to Farfaria, unlimited stories for your child.
** The Shark Whisperer #1: Tristan Hunt and the Sea Guardians, the new series from Scarletta Press by Dr. Ellen Prager,
** Josh and the Gumshoe News Crew: the Super-Secret , the new addition to The Wunderkind Family Series by Melissa Perry Moraja,
** Lately Lily: The Adventures of a Travelling Girl, the new book from Chronicle Books by Micah Player
** Bear’s Big Bottom, an hilarious new picture book from Capstone by Steve Smallman & Emma Yarlett,
** Lost Little Penguin, a cute picture book from Capstone by Tracey Corderoy & Gavin Scott
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Lost Little Penguin
Bear’s Big Bottom
Lately Lily: The Adventures of a Travelling Girl
Josh and the Gumshoe News Crew: the Super-Secret
The Shark Whisperer #1: Tristan Hunt and the Sea Guardians
Farfaria
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National Poetry Month, is nearing its end, and the royal wedding is just around the corner, so let’s write poems about it. I’ve made some suggestions below, but all forms are welcome. (If you really want to win me over, I suggest attempting my favorite poetic form, the sestina.) Send your poem care of [email protected] and I’ll post what I can tomorrow. (Keep it clean, please. Humor, satire and effusive excitement are welcome, insults are not.)
Additionally, our Twitter followers are eligible to win one of the below Oxford World’s Classics. To enter, tweet:
Take @OUPAcademic’s #royalweddingpoetrychallenge http://oxford.ly/msrv0S
Entries will be accepted all weekend. Winners will be contacted via DM.
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ghazal (ghasel; gazal; ghazel) A short lyric poem written in couplets using a single rhyme (aa, ba, ca, da, etc.), sometimes mentioning the poet’s name in the last couplet. The ghazal is an important lyric form in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu poetry, often providing the basis for popular love songs. Its usual subject-matter is amatory, although it has been adapted for religious, political, and other uses. Goethe and other German poets of the early 19th century wrote some imitations of the Persian ghazal, and the form has been adopted by a number of modern American poets, notably Adrienne Rich.
cinquain [sang-kayn] A verse stanza of five lines, more commonly known as a quintain. Examples of such stanzas include the English limerick, the Japanese tanka, and the Spanish quintilla; others include the variant ballad stanza employed intermittently by S. T. Coleridge in his ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ ( 1798 ), and many more varieties with no name.
terza rima [ter-tsă ree-mă] A verse form consisting of a sequence of interlinked tercets rhyming aba bcb cdc ded, etc. Thus the second line of eac
