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Puddle Song Board Book

Puddle Song Board Book
by Laura Purdie Salas (Author) and Monique Felix (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: There is something about the smooth surface of a puddle that beckons to children to disturb it–they want to see how the water splashes upward, to feel the droplets on their skin. This board book gives voice to the puddle as it invites the “stompers and jumpers” to explore its rippling water, offering to act as both dance partner and mirror onto the world.

Snippet:
Bring me your boots,
[TURN THE PAGE]
you stompers and jumpers.

The author, Laura Purdie Salas, is one of my former students.
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What Is a Family?

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.

Snippet:

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!)

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