A Writing Kind of Day

A Writing Kind of Day
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781590783535

It's easy to make one, lying on your back in the newest snow. You move your arms like wings. Later you forget about your creation, go inside for a mug of hot chocolate. That's when she rises from the snow takes a feathery breath, tries out her wings. So begins a poem about making a snow angel, but it might also refer to the mysterious way that a poem comes into being and takes on a life of its own. In this new collection, Ralph Fletcher shows us how you can write a poem about almost anything: a baby sister, a Venus's-flytrap, a failing grandmother, a squished squirrel, grammar homework, and more. These poems take us inside the creative process as they reveal both the playfulness and the power of poetry. More than anything, they invite us to pick up pen and paper and write some poems of your own.

Poem-making

Poem-making
Author: Myra Cohn Livingston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem.

Love That Dog

Love That Dog
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0747557497

This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.