Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit the birthday girl Mary Lee at A Year of Reading.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_s-H0hrhPhGVoA8p5sTodF-xQEqdXuTZa8YJmj-Q_wN2YOtcZKPJpb9vFmSQFSDqnBTouVgDpFeqPhRnHWbbj6bXfrz5o6yeFpxtwTMQnrjrdBdQlvZ3MbjHLCDHJJqFOdeBSQ9uY8Q/w348-h400/D39backcoveradbw.jpg) |
back cover D-39 advertisement! (final will be in color)
|
I'm super-honored Mary Lee is hosting the cover reveal for
D-39: A Robodog's Journey, my dystopian verse novel coming May 18, 2021. I hope you like it!
Cover art is by illustrator Jamie Green (learn a little about Jamie in Mary Lee's post as well!), the publisher is Charlesbridge, and it's a book I started out calling my boy-dog-war story... and then it morphed into the girl-robodog-war story you see depicted on the cover. And it's so much more than that... about tinkering and heroes and made-up words and surprises and acceptance and love and friendship and finding one's way... I hope you'll give it a read!
And if you'd like to review it on your blog, the publisher is offering digital galleys! You can email me irene (at) irenelatham (dot) com or leave a comment below.
Meanwhile: Thank you, Mary Lee!! My ArtSpeak: RED poetry offering today continues the birthday (and dog) theme. It's a revision of an e.e. cummings-inspired birthday poem I wrote a while back. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARY LEE!
Dog's Birthday Song
to you happy birthday
on this most yippity day
stick a candle in every hour
lickety-sniffety every plate
to you happy birthday
in my teeth a thousand thank yous
for party-hats cake the universe you
on this most yippety day
for you i wish
- Irene Latham