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It's Summer Reading time...hooray! The theme this year is "Dinosaurs," and I was delighted when my local library invited me to come share dino poetry with the kiddos! I packed up my stack of poetry books, including:
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs by J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen, illus. by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins
Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast: Dinosaur Poems by Jack Prelutsky, illus. by Arnold Lobel
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
In the Past by David Elliott, illus. by Matthew Trueman
...and not poetry, but my kids' favorite dino picture book:
If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most
And of course I wrote a few dinosaur poems, too! Here's one called "Message for a Long-Gone Dinosaur" that started as a tricube, and became an extended tricube. (Notice I started the tricube structure right in the title!)
I also helped kids create their own dinosaur poems. Fun!
I guess I still had dinos on the brain when it came to writing my ArtSpeak: WOMEN poem, because it, too, has a dino theme! I had fun exploring some drawings by sculptor Ruth Asawa. Thanks so much for reading.
What you call
watermelons,
watermelons, fresh
from the patch
I believe
are really
dinosaur eggs
ready to hatch!
- Irene Latham
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