Celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day

Today is also "Poem in Your Pocket Day" and the perfect moment to encourage kids to find a new or favorite poem, copy it on an index card, and keep it in their pockets to enjoy and savor all day long (and beyond)!  And of course we have a pocket poem in our new CELEBRATIONS book! And who wrote it? My fantastic friend and collaborator, Janet Wong! Here it is in both English and Spanish.

You'll find heaps more poems in the form of Pocket Poem cards at our Pinterest page HERE.

And Melissa R. has videotaped a young reader performing the poem, too, complete with voiceover while she's eating and reading a card!

For more information about Poem in Your Pocket Day, click HERE. There are many clever and practical ideas presented!

For the full text of this poem and 150+ more (all in English AND Spanish), order your own copy of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations HERE and for more Poetry Celebrations fun, click HERE. Plus for more on National Poetry Month, click HERE.

May 4-10, 2015 Celebrating Children’s Book Week

Another big celebration of children and books is coming up soon:

National Children’s Book Week, 

May 4-10, 2015

It used to be in November, but it’s been a May event for awhile now and I’m happy to report that we have a poem for Book Week coming up in our CELEBRATIONS book. It’s “Treasure Hunt” by Sandy Asher. Laura D. has recruited a young reader to perform this poem in both English and Spanish. 

For more information about National Children’s Book Week, check out the Children’s Book Council site HERE. And we’re excited to be one of the few publishers offering a POETRY-themed “Event Kit” for Book Week this year. It includes reproducibles, game and coloring pages, bookmarks, and a word search featuring the word “poetry” in 20 different languages! 

OUR EVENT KIT: http://tinyurl.com/o9n9c3u

For the full text of this poem and 150+ more (all in English AND Spanish), order your own copy of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations HERE and for more Poetry Celebrations fun, click HERE. Plus for more on National Poetry Month, click HERE.

April 30: Celebrating Children’s Day, Book Day

In just a few days, we’ll be celebrating El día de los niños, El día de los libros; Children’s Day, Book Day. It’s officially on April 30, but you can certainly celebrate books and children any day! Día (for short) originates with poet, author, and literacy advocate Pat Mora and we are so thrilled to have a poem in honor of this multicultural celebration of children and books penned by Pat herself. 

Here’s Pat talking about the Día celebration: 

And for more about Pat Mora, click HERE and for more about celebrating Día, click HERE.  

For the full text of this poem and 150+ more (all in English AND Spanish), order your own copy of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations HERE and for more Poetry Celebrations fun, click HERE. Plus for more on National Poetry Month, click HERE.