From: Jonathan Pearce <teacher>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:41:18 -0700

On 4/17/07, Megan Schliesman <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> wrote:

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.*

So I would be remiss not to mention young Patella Sackworth who pines to be recognized as a major poet and thus is easily sucked into the scheme of subsidy publisher Ms. Verga Bless. Jonathan

Verga's Blessing (ISBN 097654797X), by Jonathan Pearce (BalonaBooks 2006)
"...plays out like a "Far Side" cartoon...should appeal to [those] who have a taste for vampires, comedy, and mangled vocabulary."
  ?Sallie Barringer in School Library Journal
  Wholesale: Baker &Taylor. Brodart, BWI, Coutts, Follett Library Resources, Mackin, Quality Books (and at http://www.balona.com/ verga.html>
Received on Tue 17 Apr 2007 12:41:18 PM CDT