
REMINDER: You have less than one week to enter my drawing for a FREE copy of Laura Purdie Salas’ new book, In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House (Wordsong, 2019)! This children’s poetry collection imagines what the inanimate objects inside a home are doing after the lights go out…and between neckties and hair combs and cap-less markers, the house is a much busier place than one might expect. So check out my blog post featuring Laura (well, actually, it’s an interview with Laura’s inanimate objects!), and leave a comment to be entered in the drawing.
Madness! Poetry continues! I got knocked out of the second round in my battle with Lori Grusman – but she is still soldiering on! So log on and check out all the match-ups, then vote for your favorite!
Rebecca Herzog is hosting Poetry Friday today at Sloth Reads while simultaneously celebrating national Goof Off Day! How in the world is she going to juggle both of these duties? You’ll have to pop on over and find out!
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Ordering personalized signed copies online?
Oh, yes, you can!
You can purchase personalized signed copies of Flashlight Night, (Boyds Mills Press, 2017), Don’t Ask a Dinosaur (Pow! Kids Books, 2018), and nearly ALL of the books or anthologies I’ve been part of!
Just click the cover of whichever book you want and send the good folks at MainStreet BookEnds in Warner, NH a note requesting the signature and to whom I should make it out to. (alternatively, you can log onto my website and do the same thing) They’ll contact me, I’ll stop by and sign it for you, and then they’ll ship it. Try doing that with those big online booksellers! (Plus, you’ll be helping to support local book-selling – and wouldn’t that make you feel good?)
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Thank you to everyone for your support!
- NY Public Library’s “100 Best Book for Kids 2017” AND “Staff Pick!”
- KIRKUS Starred review!
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Recommended Books!
- “Best Reads of 2017,” Unleashing Readers
- Amazon “Best Books of the Month,” Sept. 2017
- Positive reviews from Horn Book, School Library Connection, Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, and Shelf-Awareness
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.- “Rollicking rhyme!” – Booklist
- “A wild romp!” – Parenting NH Magazine
- “Cute…intriguing…4 out of 5 stars” – Tulsa Book Review
- “Rhythmic…funny and informative” – Unleashing Readers
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Love your spring haiku and the photo you paired it with. I wrote a poem welcoming spring this week, too.
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I’ll have to check it out! Thanks, Kimberly.
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Love those titans. Thanks for sharing, and happy spring!
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Thanks, Irene – happy spring to you, as well!
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Our ‘Titans’ continue to be covered with snow! There will be quite a snowmelt someday! Love the idea, Matt!
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Thanks so much, Linda – yes, one of these days we’ll see some green!
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Happy Spring to you – as the snowplows roll by!
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They are, indeed, rolling! Thanks, Yvona.
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Happy Spring!! Hope it arrives up your way sooner rather than later . . .
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Fingers crossed!!
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Lovely poem to welcome spring, Matt. It makes me miss springtime in the White Mountains!
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Thanks, Michelle – it looks like you got to enjoy some green highland beauty during your recent excursion, though! If you ever make it back here, let me know!
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Loved your Spring haiku! It made me miss the mountains from when I lived out west!
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There are mountains…and then there are MOUNTAINS! Thanks, Rebecca!
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Welcome, Spring! Thanks for your lovely poem and photo! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
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Thanks so much, Ruth!
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Your haiku would be a good prologue for a Greek myth themed book. What will happen once the Titans awaken? (Maybe I’m too ready for the new Avengers movie?)
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Thanks, Tabatha…I will admit I’m suffering from Avengers Brain! Can’t wait!
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I do believe I hear one of those titans snoring… but not for long! Beautiful photo and haiku interpretation, Matt.
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Thank you, Michelle!
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Bring on the “Titans” I like this bold Haiku Matt and that pic is breath taking! Congrats on making it through two rounds of Madness Poetry, keeps one going for sure, thanks!
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Thanks so much, Michelle!
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