Send Me Your Spines
April has been a great month. After laying down the gauntlet, challenging teacher and librarian-types to try book spine poems with kids, emails have been arriving. Yesterday, after receiving a new batch, two thoughts struck me:
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1. You should check out the student book spine poem gallery.
2. Keep sending ’em. You can email me (scopenotes@gmail.com), or post them to your site and let me know. Either way, I’ll add them to the gallery until the end of April.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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I LOVE this! What an amazing idea! Keep up the creative poetry!
Mine is here:
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2010/04/poem-28-book-spine-poem.html