By Carolee Dean
With authors like Ellen Hopkins, Sonya Sones, and Lisa Schroeder, there has been a virtual explosion of verse novels in the past decade, but do we really understand their place in literature?
Are verse novels a YA or middle-grade fad,
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By Kate Hosford
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse. Most recently, The Wild Book (Harcourt, 2012). The Surrender Tree: Poem’s of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (Henry Holt, 2008) received many awards, including the first Newbery Honor granted to a Hispanic writer.
Margarita has received two American Library Association Pura Belpré Awards,
A Ph.D. in Economics (The Ohio State University, 1974), J. Patrick Lewis (“Pat”) turned to children’s poetry at age forty.
He has since published 80 children’s poetry and picture books to date with Creative Editions, Knopf, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic,
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By Carolee Dean
William Butler Yeats is considered one of the great poets of the 20th century, and yet he struggled with one of the most basic skill needed for his craft, the ability to read.
An article by Marylou Minder and Linda S. Siegel in the 1992 (Vol. 25,
By Kate Hosford
Hello, Marilyn! 2012 is a big year for you with five poetry books coming out.
In the first part of this interview, we discussed your rhyming picture book, The Boy Who Cried Alien, illustrated by Brian Biggs (Hyperion), and A Stick is An Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play,
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Oggi & Marilyn Singer
By Kate Hosford
Photo of Marilyn & Oggi by Laurie Gaboard of the Litchfield County Times
Marilyn, congratulations are in order. You have five poetry books, as well as a prose picture book, coming out this year:
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By Kate Hosford
Sylvia Vardell is a professor at Texas Woman’s University. She also is the author of Poetry Aloud Here! Sharing Poetry with Children in the Library (ALA, 2006), Poetry People: A Practical Guide to Children’s Poets (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), and Children’s Literature in Action: A Librarians Guide (Libraries Unlimited,
By Kate Hosford
A couple years ago, my son came home from school and informed me that one of his teachers was “rusted from the inside”.
While another parent might have probed further into this state of affairs, I immediately lunged for my writing book and scribbled down the phrase.
“Rusted from the inside?”
That was too good to pass up.
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