How to Make Book Spine Poems
Travis here with your annual reminder that April is National Poetry Month. So it’s the perfect time for book spine centos. Give one a try. Or try it with your students/patrons.
Here are my tips for creating a book spine cento:
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- Check out the book spine poem gallery for inspiration.
- Get to a place with plenty of books. A library works nicely. Or a large home collection.
- Start looking at titles, and see what strikes you. Arrange and rearrange in your head. The best part of this type of poetry is the fact that you don’t know where you’ll end up.
- Have a pencil and paper with you to write down titles that stand out – you can refer back to them later.
- Don’t be afraid to use the library catalog (if available) to look up titles with specific words or phrases that fit.
Additional Resources:
Sorted Books by Nina Katchadourian
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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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