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Poetry Challenge #287-Not the Junk Drawer!

Happy Birthday, Naomi Shihab Nye! (A few slices of cake late and all the cheerier for it!)

Born, March 12, 1952, Naomi composed her first poems when she was 6.

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Baby's Bite! Picture Books About Siblings to Sink Your Teeth Into!

Baby’s bite! Siblings squabble! That’s reality. Reading Books about Sibling Relationships is an easy way to discuss sibling stuff with kids. And because it’s March and you are reading aloud right? Here’s a list of picture books about siblings that are—as Vampire Baby puts it, “Toothly funny!”—definitely worth sinking your teeth into: ...

Poetry Challenge #286-There is Always Light

Amanda Gorman was the first person to be named “ National Youth Poet Laureate ” ...

Poetry Challenge #285-Would You? Could You?

Parents hide them, children love them, editors warn “don’t try them,” today we celebrate them. What are they?

Dr. Seuss’s rhyming picture books. Thank you Dr. Seuss for the most stick-in-your-head read-it-again books of all time! And Happy Birthday! (Marc...

March Reading Madness

March Madness is on! Basketball latter-gator … March is National Reading Month! In between games and goings-on, pull out some books and read-read-read aloud with your kiddos!

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Poetry Challenge #285-Would You, Could You?

Parents hide them. Children love them. Editors warn “don’t try them.” Today we celebrate them. What are they? Dr. Suess’s rhyming picture books. Thank you Dr. Suess for the most stick-in-your-head read-it-again books of all time! And Happy Birthday! (Marc...

All Play Ball! Picture Books about Black, Brown, Male, Female Baseball Players

Spring Training is on! Right now, Major League Baseball players of all colors are warming up. A rainbow of baseball kids are warming up too, to play and watch—and read!  These picture books about Black, Hispanic, Native American, male and female baseball ...

Poetry Challenge #284-Play Like Millay

In 1912, when Edna St. Vincent Millay was 19, she entered a poetry contest with her poem “Renascence” which begins, “All I could see from where I stood”. She was given 4th place—and no prize. When the contest entries were published, many people felt Milla...

Poetry Challenge #283-Mughal Princess Poetry

There are princesses among us, walking, talking, working—using royal for good now* and then 350 years ago, confined to life behind harem walls writing poetry!

Imagine Zeb-un-Nisa*, a Mughal princess born Feb 15, 1638, wrote poetry that, centuries later is...

Poetry Challenge #282-The Littlest Rebel

Kate Chopin, did not lead a life in keeping with prim Victorian images of her captured on film.

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