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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Young Readers

Peachtree Publishing Company — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The warm weather is here to stay. The trees are blooming, and the flowers are out. With bees buzzing and the sun shining, springtime just might be the most poetic time of year. We’re in the mood for poetry, and April is National Poetry Month!

We hope you’ve caught the poetry bug as well, because we not only have some great poetry, but we also want to share a story about a great poet. So whether you want to read poetry or read about poetry this month, we’ve got you covered. Enjoy!

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

George loved words. But George was enslaved. In this powerful biography of poet George Moses Horton, the first Southern African-American man to be published, Don Tate tells an inspiring and moving story of talent and determination.

Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon

Powerful free verse and stunning illustrations tell the true story of the American effort to land the first man on the Moon.

Spi-Ku
A Clutter of Short Verse on Eight Legs
Leslie Bulion, award-winning educator favorite and master of science poetry, delivers a humorous exploration of the silk-spinning, bungee-jumping, hunting, trapping, trick-filled world of spiders! Meet spiders that spit silk, roll like wheels, scuba dive, hide under trap doors, strum tunes, and so much more.

Amphibian Acrobats
Step right up and learn all about the lively participants in the Amphibian Acrobat show—from the agile Wallace’s flying frog to the bouncing Venezuelan pebble toad to the tricky salamander called the yellow-eyed ensatina.

Superlative Birds

Explore the fascinating world of superlative birds―from the bee hummingbird, the tiniest bird in the world, to the peregrine falcon, the fastest creature on Earth.

Leaf Litter Critters

Have fun on this poetic tour through the leaf litter layer and dig into the fascinating facts about the tiny critters who live there.

At the Sea Floor Café

Witty poems and elegant artwork let us know what’s on the menu for some unusual undersea creatures. Leslie Bulion gives readers a clever collection of poems that describes the devious and sometimes surprising methods ocean denizens use to forage for food, capture prey, trick predators, and protect their young.

Random Body Parts

Take a free-form trip through the human body with these humorous riddle poems. Which body part, if spread out flat, would cover a tennis court? Stretched end to end, which body parts would wrap four times around the equator? What’s the hardest substance in the human body? Leslie Bulion has put together anatomical, poetic, and visual clues that will help readers discover the answers to these questions — and many more!

Bring on the Birds; Stripes of All Types;
Spectacular Spots; and Fabulous Fishes

With simple, rhyming text and brightly colored, richly textured illustrations, author-illustrator Susan Stockdale introduces young readers to some of the distinctive qualities in animals. These board books are a great way to introduce rhythm and rhyme found in poetry to children just beginning to learn about language.

Miguel’s Brave Knight

Award-winning author Margarita Engle’s distinctive picture book depiction of the childhood of the father of the modern novel, told in a series of free verse poems, is enhanced by Raúl Colón’s stunning illustrations.

Grow: A Novel in Verse

This verse novel by Juanita Havill for young readers uses rich, evocative language to deliver a powerful story of the extraordinary magic that occurs every day when ordinary people work together.

Find these books and more at your local library, indie bookstore, or Barnes & Noble!

Teacher Tuesday with Random Body Parts

Peachtree Publishers — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000

Grades 2-5

This unique book combines a detailed anatomy lesson with a Shakespearian sonnet. Although these two topics are not ordinarily paired, Random Body Parts provides humorous riddles for students to discover interesting details about how their bodies function. This book is perfect for reading out loud with a health or science class, and having the students laugh along as they try to decipher which body part each riddle references. Try this activity with your class as you read Random Body Parts aloud.

Divide your class into groups of five.
Cut out shapes or print pictures of the following body parts. Make sure each group of five has one copy of each paper body part. Body parts: ear, eye, bone, spleen, kidney, nose, pancreas, liver, eyelid, brain, lung, heart, tongue, teeth, stomach, skin, blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, and muscles. Be sure to label each body part.
As you read the story aloud, have the group quietly decide which body part the poem references before you get to the end of the particular riddle.
The first group to hold up the correct body part gets 3 points. Each group that holds up the correct body part thereafter receives one point.
Keep score on a white board or chalk board.
After the story is completed, the team with the most points wins!

Click here for the full summary of Random Body Parts and here for the full teacher’s guide.

National Poetry Month: Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse

Peachtree Publishers — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:53:00 +0000

Hey Guys!

We’re sure that by now you know all about the big news…it’s NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!

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All of April has been a wonderful celebration of alliteration and assonance, metaphor and meter, voice and verse. With the month almost at its end, Poem in your Pocket Day is fast approaching! Do you have your #pocketpoem folded up and ready to go?

Well, seeing how such an exciting day is headed our way, we here at Peachtree Publishers thought why not introduce our poetic present?

Random Body Parts:Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse, written by Leslie Bulion and illustrated by Mike Lowery, incorporates witty and nimble verse about body parts paired with whimsical drawings that are both informative and fun!

Bulion makes learning a game as each poem poses a puzzle in verse (with a sly wink and a nod to Shakespeare) and provides hints for uncovering the body part in question.

This book is not simply heads, shoulders, knees, and toes though. Sidebars further educate readers about the anatomical subject in question, while appended notes offer a crash course on poetic form and a few facts about the Shakespearean works that inspired the verses.

Why not pick up a copy of Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse from your local bookseller or local library and make your Poem in a Pocket Day both educational and fun? Here are some creative ideas to get you started!

Poem in your Pocket Day Ideas

Visit the Academy of American Poets to download poems and get started

Add a poem to your email footer

Write a poem on the back of your business card

Text a poem to a friend

Visit Read.Write.Think for suggestions
Visit the 811 section of your library for books on poetry
Create artist trading cards, but add poems! And then trade with friends.

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Have fun, take plenty of pictures, and don’t forget to use the hashtags #pocketpoem and #ppsquared2015 (Peachtree Publishers Pocket Poems) to tag your photos on Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to get creative and share your favorite poems all around!