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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:23:44 -0500
There weren't many comments about poetry during the first half of April. Now it's time to turn our attention to our topic for the second half of the month: books that feature children and teenagers who write or who want to be writers.*
* Two of my favorites for younger children are the picture book "A Bird about the Sing" by Laura Nyman Montenegro (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) and Nikki Grimes's collection of poetry "A Pocketful of Poems" (Clarion, 2001). I don't recall that either book shows the actual endeavor of writing, but both offer up a child character who has a distinctive way of viewing the world, and who references the writing she does. (Both fictional characters happen to be young poets.)
Who else can think of books that feature young writers or would-be writers? Are there ways you use books like these with children and teens?
Megan
Received on Tue 17 Apr 2007 11:23:44 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:23:44 -0500
There weren't many comments about poetry during the first half of April. Now it's time to turn our attention to our topic for the second half of the month: books that feature children and teenagers who write or who want to be writers.*
* Two of my favorites for younger children are the picture book "A Bird about the Sing" by Laura Nyman Montenegro (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) and Nikki Grimes's collection of poetry "A Pocketful of Poems" (Clarion, 2001). I don't recall that either book shows the actual endeavor of writing, but both offer up a child character who has a distinctive way of viewing the world, and who references the writing she does. (Both fictional characters happen to be young poets.)
Who else can think of books that feature young writers or would-be writers? Are there ways you use books like these with children and teens?
Megan
Received on Tue 17 Apr 2007 11:23:44 AM CDT
