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Booktalk: I have an acrostic poem (shown below) in What Is a Family?, a middle grade anthology from Pomelo Books about all kinds of families.

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Like What Is a Friend? (last year’s middle grade poetry anthology from Pomelo Books) all of the poems in this anthology were also ekphrastic poems, poems inspired by art. When I saw this photo, it reminded me of the tutoring I did at home (and in the neighborhood) when I was in high school, sitting at a kitchen table just like the one in this photo. Now after teaching elementary school, middle school, and college, I’ve come full circle and am working one-to-one again. Only this time, I’m sitting at a table with a laptop using Zoom talking to writers across the continent (and around the world) about their books. (Who could have imagined that? Not me!)

Our Roof Is Blue
by Sara E. Echenique (Author) and Ashley Vargas (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Before Hurricane Maria destroys their home in Puerto Rico, Antonio told his sister vibrant stories each night. During the storm, they huddled with their parents in a closet and hear the storm blow the roof right off their home. After the storm, their family uses a temporary blue tarp for a roof, and Antonio stops speaking. Gradually the siblings imagine their blue roof playfully–as the ocean above them or a parachute helping them fall from the sky. As the narrator helps her little brother feel safe once more–and after the family and community build a new roof–the little boy begins to speak again.

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Also available in Spanish as Nuestro techo es azul @ Amazon | Bookshop