Poetry Friday: Bang! Boom! Roar!
National Poetry Month is nigh, and I’m posting a book spine poem every Friday until April. Want to try it? Maybe give it a shot with kids? Click here for some tips on creating your own.
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If you do give it a go, take a picture and post it to your blog, or send it my way via email (scopenotes (at) gmail (dot) com). On Tuesday, April 2nd I’ll posting a gallery with all your work, and continue to add to it for the entire month.
On to today’s book spine poem…
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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 your Spine Poetry. I’m pinning to my Poetry for Kids board: http://pinterest.com/pragmaticmom/poetry-for-kids/
Thanks!
Good one!
Here’s mine: http://wheretheshadowsmeetthelight.blogspot.com/2013/03/poetry-friday-book-spine-poems.html
Thanks for the challenge! It was great fun.
Here is my spine poem honoring the night noises that begin with the arrival of Spring!
http://theamyrudder.blogspot.com/2013/03/first-day-of-spring.html
I came up with a book spine poem about poetry:
http://readingtothecore.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/slice-21-of-31-a-book-spine-poem/