Yes, I’m a poet and proud of it, and I don’t think I’ll ever want to be anything else. It’s what I would have said in answer to that old chestnut, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Wow! How many people actually get to have their dreams come true?
Categories: THE POWER OF POETRY • Tags: kids, poet, rupert brooke, sue burge, teacher, the poetry question, workshop
How does something become magnificent? One regular girl and her canine assistant work together to answer this question in Ashley Spires’ book, The Most Magnificent Thing (Kids Can Press). One day, the girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just what it will look like. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy peasy! But things […]
Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Ashley Spires, CHILDREN'S LIT REVIEWS, elementary school, kids, Kids Can Press, Magnificent, Middle school, parents, picture book, review, Teachers, teaching, the poetry question