""As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here's the cool thing: poetry can get you there. It is inherently turbo-charged. Poets distill a novel's worth of content and emotion in twenty lines. The literary ele[...]

Creatures of land, water, and sky are featured here in short poems for early readers. Noted poet and educator Georgia Heard writes about baboons and bears, eagles and bats, dragonflies and frogs. Naturalist and illustrator Jennifer Dewey captures each animal in dramatic detail. The book is written a[...]

Det lilla barnet överraskar oss ofta med sitt rika och fantasifulla språk. Det har lätt att finna ett bildrikt och poestiskt uttryck för sina upplevelser. Att läsa och skriva dikter med skolbarn är ett sätt att bevara och vidareutveckla barnets språkliga fantasi. Georgi Heard har under flera[...]