Category: booktalk

My First Book of Haiku Poems: a Picture, a Poem and a Dream; Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters
by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Author) and Tracy Gallup (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A fully bilingual children’s book, this poetry collection includes the original versions of the Japanese poems (in Japanese script and Romanized form) on each page alongside the English translation. Commentaries offer parents and teachers ready-made “food for thought” to share with young readers and stimulate a conversation about each work.

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A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

At the end of the book, you are invited to write a haiku for the painting . . .

Will you take the next step and write your own children’s book in 2020?

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Up Verses Down: Poems, Paintings, and Serious Nonsense
by Calef Brown (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: This long-format picture book poetry collection is full of zany characters–from Sleepy LaFeete, who chooses to snooze in the busiest spots, to Mister Adam Hatter and the Lovely Lady Wigg, who had a fig banquet and danced a fancy jig, to a guy named Rexx who uses exxtra Xs every now and then.

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A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

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