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THE SOUND OF KINDNESS
Magination Press/American Psychological Association
2023
This heartwarming book touches on the themes of kindness and socio-emotional resonance, and the idea that our words matter.
IF THIS BIRD HAD POCKETS
Wordsong/Astra Books for Young Readers
2022
In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, a child imagines the poems animals would carry in their pockets if they had pockets. What would your poem be if you were a hummingbird? Or a fox?
DREAMING OF YOU
Boyds Mills Press
2018
This lullaby of a rhyming picture book wishes a child sweet dreams of many animals as these same animals dream sweet dreams of the child.
EVERY DAY BIRDS
Orchard/Scholastic
2016
One nonfiction poem offers facts about twenty common birds of the Northeastern United States. With additional bird facts at the end of the book EVERY DAY BIRDS offers children and adults an opportunity to learn about the birds right outside the kitchen or classroom window.
FOREST HAS A SONG
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013
Take a walk in the forest. Have a chat with a chickadee, watch the fiddleheads unfurl, discover a fossil, hear what a young owl tells its mother before its first flight. Find out what the spring tree frog is really saying. The forest is inviting you to come and visit. The poems in this book, intimate and lighthearted, will take you there.
POEMS ARE TEACHERS: HOW STUDYING POETRY STRENGTHENS
WRITING IN ALL GENRES
Heinemann
2017
This professional book for teachers examines the ways that poetry can teach us all about strong writing in any genre. Look forward to poems by many contemporary children’s poets and student poets.
POETRY: BIG THOUGHTS IN SMALL PACKAGES
Heinemann
2013
This complete unit, co-authored with Lucy Calkins and Stephanie Parsons, includes mini lessons, conferring thoughts, share sessions, and a variety of resources for finding poem ideas, using poetic techniques, and experimenting with structure.
READ! READ! READ!
Wordsong/Astra Books for Young Readers
2017
This collection of poems about the joys of reading celebrates everything from discovering new books to reading in bed to loving dogs in stories.
THAT MISSING FEELING
Magination Press/American Psychological Association
Spring 2021
A story about Mia, who feels "that missing feeling" after her parents divorce. In time, and with her grandpa, she learns that writing can help with feelings surrounding loss and change.
WITH MY HANDS: POEMS ABOUT MAKING THINGS
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2018
This collection of poems about creativity, about being a maker, reminds us that our hands are capable of so much: carving soap, painting, building bird houses, tie-dyeing, and more.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
Wordsong/Astra Books for Young Readers
2020
Twenty-two poems capture the amazing power of writing and will inspire even the most reluctant writer to begin putting words to paper.