Kelly Bennett's Blog, page 22
March 2, 2023
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 1, 2023
March Reading Madness
March is National Reading Month! In between games and goings-on, pull out some books and read-read-read aloud with your kiddos! Aft...
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...
February 27, 2023
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 ...
February 22, 2023
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...
February 15, 2023
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...
February 8, 2023
February 6, 2023
What Inspires Me? J. Ivy
If you’re reading this, the 2023 Grammy Award ceremony is over. If you watched, you watched history being performed as the nominees and winners of a brand-new award category were announced:
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album ...February 3, 2023
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February 2, 2023
Poetry Challenge #281-Judicious Pruning
In my current silly state of mind, couldn’t resist riffing off of a Cole Porter standard* to introduce today’s prompt. After all, it’s February 2nd—Groundhog’s Day—and whether or not that frisky little fellow scurried back inside or not, Spring is just ar...
