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Excerpt from Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems.
Copyright 1998.
Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems
was the featured book for
KidsRead 2007
in San Ramon, California. Check out the innovative program
librarian Amy Mockoski designed!
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What do trees think about all day long? Do they dream at
night? What might trees tell us? Old Elm Speaks
invites us to look at trees in new and surprising ways! |
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Welcome!
As an author of children's poetry, I'm often not sure what delights me more
— writing poetry
or sharing my love of poetry. That may explain why this site has mushroomed over the years
to include information
about my published work as well as resources I hope you'll find helpful for teaching, writing,
sharing, and enjoying children's poetry.
Thanks to
your feedback and encouragement, my little corner of the
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I really enjoy where I live; it is never boring. How
can I not be inspired to write when I have great
neighbors like this?
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 Driving
home in the late afternoon, I spotted a coyote. I
pulled over, rolled the window down, and took a
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Book News
See
Poetry Aloud for audio clips of poems from Hummingbird Nest with music and
arrangement by Cece Worrall Rubin.
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HUMMINGBIRD NEST: A Journal of Poems,
illustrated in watercolor by Barry Moser, received the Bank
Street College Claudia Lewis Poetry Award, the John
Burroughs Nature Award,
The ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book
Award,
the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award,
and was nominated for
the Texas Bluebonnet Master List for 2005-2006. It received starred
reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly,
and was a lead review in the New York Times Book Review.
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Kristine O'Connell George. All rights reserved.
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