For Students

Hi! You can click on the covers below to learn more about the books I've written and what inspired me. 

 

Doing a report for school? Check out "Biography." 

There's a lot to discover on this page! Here are some quick links to things you can do:

 


Explore:

Learn more about SWIMMING UPSTREAM: MIDDLE SCHOOL POEMS. Read what students across the country are saying about middle school at Middle School Musings.



What would you do with only one mitten? Put on your "thinking cap" (a mitten?) and join students across the country in grades K to 3 in "The One Mitten Imagination Challenge." Let's see how many wildly creative thinkers there are out there!


 
 

 

  Explore: 

Tips for Poets


Tips for Poets - Observation

Read poems written by middle school students for
The Amazing Middle School Poetry Quest.


Peek into Maggie Smith's studio as she creates the art for One Mitten.

 


  Good book!

Read some of the poems from my books:

 

"Pond" and "Recycled" from FOLD ME A POEM

 
"Nest Construction" from HUMMINGBIRD NEST: A JOURNAL OF POEMS.

 
A selection of poems from SWIMMING UPSTREAM: MIDDLE SCHOOL POEMS or, if you have Flash, check out the "flip book."

 
"Big News" from LITTLE DOG AND DUNCAN

 
"Birthday" from LITTLE DOG POEMS (Bonus: A recipe for dog cookies)

 
"Coming Home" from LITTLE DOG POEMS

 
"Old Elm Speaks" from OLD ELM SPEAKS: TREE POEMS

 
"Sleeping Outside" from TOASTING MARSHMALLOWS: CAMPING POEMS

 
"Polliwogs" from THE GREAT FROG RACE
(Bonus: Learn about "tadpole ranching")
   

Listen up! I'm reading my poem aloud! Listen to the author reading some of her poems

 
Learn more about hummingbirds or Arbor Day, then peek inside an artist's studio as Maggie Smith finishes the art for
ONE MITTEN.

 

Writer's notebook. Write and publish your own poems.

Check out Student Poets

 Meet Amber - our "big dog." She's not as big as "Duncan" from my book, LITTLE DOG AND DUNCAN but she's big enough!


 

Thanks for hopping by!


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E-Mail!I've got the mail! (From Little Dog Poems. Copyright 1999 June Otani.)
 

 

 


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