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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is author of several poetry books for children including Forest Has a Song, With My Hands, Read! Read! Read!, and Write! Write! Write!. In addition, she is author of picture books Every Day Birds, Dreaming of You, That Missing Feeling, poems in many anthologies, and popular classroom blogs The Poem Farm and Sharing Our Notebooks. Her newest book is If This Bird Had Pockets: A Poem in Your Pocket Day Celebration (March 2022).

Having studied and worked at the Teachers College Writing Project at Columbia University, Amy has been an elementary school teacher and is author of the Heinemann professional book Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres and co-author, with Lucy Calkins and Stephan
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Students - Can you believe that I took the above sky photograph just moments after writing this poem? Well, I did! This week has been so beautiful, so summery in Western New York.
Today's poem leans on the meter of the 1936 song "Dona Nobis Pacem" ("Grant Us Peace" in Latin). If you listen to the recording above, you will hear me read the poem and then sing i Read more of this blog post »
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Forest Has a Song: Poems

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Every Day Birds

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READ! READ! READ!

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If This Bird Had Pockets

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Vida Sreta Love, love, LOVE, Amy's poetry. Love her way of "dressing up" some ordinary things from nature around her and things from everyday life into such beautiful language figures so that almost every line creates a picture in readers' minds. Happy about the new books that are coming up next year. I would be delighted to have the new treasure, Amy's book POEMS ARE TEACHERS.


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