It's Monday, Plus Poem # 4

           On Mondays, I connect with a group that reviews books they want everyone to know about. Here's a fabulous way to discover books worth a look. 

          Visit Jen at Teach MentorTexts and Kellee and Ricki at UnleashingReaders to see what they've been reading, along with everyone else who link up.   

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   It's also April, poetry month, and I'm attempting to write a poem every day, sometimes taking someone else's challenge, sometimes finding inspiration myself. Today it's a celebration of books, so my Poem # 4 is about books, in a slightly different way. 

 I reviewed a new poetry book for Poetry Friday last week. This wonderful book by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Every Day Birds, is written for young children to begin learning about birds. My post is here.

And go here to Diane Mayr's post at Random Noodling  for line number four of Irene Latham's Progressive Poem.

My Appetite

Books give a soda fizz,

sweet icing on a cake,

salt and pepper in a stew,

a chocolate ice cream shake,

Books taste like lollipops,

mint by the garden wall,

first strawberry ripe and read,

pasta with a huge meatball.

Books know the tang of lime;

they don’t forget the spice.

They flavor dim sum pages.

Their menu’s worth the price.

Linda Baie ©All Rights Reserved

       I finished the Two Writing Teachers' slice of life challenge last week, and I read lots of words/slices, but fewer books. Here are those I'm happy to share!

SweaterWeather & other short stories - Sara Varon

         I am not familiar with Sara Varon’s work, at least until now. Evidently parts of this book have been published earlier, and some later parts in different publications for awards, etc., Sara gives some of this information in the small introductions to each part. As the title says, the book holds short stories, in graphic form, all cleverly presented and most made me slow down a lot so I could really look at each cell, missing as little as possible of the details. They each have one theme, like friendship, but Sara has also added a part about bee-keeping, complete with tools and a charming section with paper dolls, to be copied and cut out. For all creative people, children and adults, there are pages of interviews of other artists who work at home, the good and the bad of that. Those who are thrilled with lots of cartoons in stories will love this book. There seems to be something in it for all ages.