Poetry for Children

           About finding and sharing poetry with young people

Thursday, September 19, 2013

THE MORTIMER MINUTE: A Guest Post by Janet Wong

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Earlier this month children's author April Halprin Wayland invited me to follow her in a Children's Poetry Blog Hop.  Welcome to an...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Birmingham, 1963: 50 years later

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This week I am honored to feature Carole Boston Weatherford and her award-winning book, Birmingham, 1963 , in memory of the bombing of th...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

New novels in verse: Liars

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It seems like there has been an explosion in the publication of novels in verse this year-- and so many great ones! Just out this week: Sony...
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Sylvia Vardell
Sylvia Vardell is Professor Emerita and author of the textbook, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION, as well as POETRY ALOUD HERE, THE POETRY TEACHER'S BOOK OF LISTS, POETRY PEOPLE, and the co-editor of many poetry anthologies in collaboration with poet Janet Wong and Pomelo Books. A frequent speaker at conferences, Vardell chaired the NCTE Poetry Award committee, served as a judge for the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and the CYBILS poetry award, and has been a consultant to the Poetry Foundation.
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