THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE A ROBIN
Bring spring:Sing!
THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE A STAR
Waltz across the velvet night.Then melt into the morning light.
THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE A SHRIMP
Be small.That’s all.
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About Me
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- Elaine Magliaro
- I worked as an elementary school teacher for more than three decades and as a school librarian for three years. I also taught a children's literature course at Boston University from 2002-2008. I served on the advisory board of the Keene State College Children’s Literature Festival from 2006-2008 and as a member of the NCTE Poetry Committee from 2009-2012. "Things to Do," my first children's book, won the 2018 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature and a 2018 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Award.
Elaine's First Poetry Book (February 7,2017)
Elaine has poems in the following anthologies.
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog selected by Paul Janeczko
World Make Way edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Great Morning!: Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
One Minute Till Bedtime selected by Kenn Nesbitt
Dare to Dream...Change the World edited by Jill Corcoran
A Rocketful of Space Poems compiled by John Foster
My Cat Is in Love with the Goldfish and Other Loopy Love Poems chosen by Graham Denton
Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems edited by Georgia Heard
Robert's Snowflakes compiled by Grace Lin & Robert Mercer
Dear One: A Tribute to Lee Bennett Hopkins compiled by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong
POETRY
Blog Archive
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2012
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April
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- Tasting the Sun: An Original Poem
- Fourth Week of NaPoMo...And the Winner of "Requiem...
- An Original Animal Mask Poem by Linda at TeacherDance
- Wild Rose Reader: Dinner with Friends, A Poetry Po...
- At Your Service: An Original Mask Poem
- Things to Do If You Are a Book: An Original Poem
- Coelacanth Speaks...December 1938: An Original Ani...
- SHOWERS: An Original Acrostic Poem
- SKY: An Original Acrostic Poem
- Third Week of NaPoMo: And the Winner of "Emma Dile...
- Things to Do If You Are a Nightlight: An Original ...
- Dzidzi's Garden: An Original Memoir Poem
- MONARCH CATERPILLAR: An Original Animal Mask Poem
- A Little Poetic Food for Thought
- Second Week of NaPoMo: And the Winner of "Cousins ...
- Two Original Poems: Things to Do If You Are Night ...
- MOLE: An Original Animal Mask Poem
- Happy Birthday, Lee Bennett Hopkins!
- PAINTED LADY: An Original Animal Mask Poem
- Things to Do If You Are a Bicycle: An Original Poem
- JAPANESE BEETLE: An Original Animal Mask Poem
- LADYBUG: An Original Animal Mask Poem
- First Week of NaPoMo: And the Winner of "Poem in Y...
- Things to Do If You Are an Alarm Clock: An Origina...
- Two Poems in Memory of My Cat Abby
- Three "Things to Do" Rhyming Couplets
- National Poetry Month 2012: Some Resources and Videos
- SKY COLORS: An Original Poem
- Things to Do If You Are a Window: An Original List...
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April
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Blogroll
- Annie Patterson
- Bloomabilities
- Blue Rose Girls
- Book Moot
- Booklights (PBS Parents)
- Bottom Shelf Books
- Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy, A
- Charlotte's Library
- Check it Out
- Chicken Spaghetti
- Cybils Awards, The
- David L. Harrison's Blog
- Drift Record, The (Julie Larios)
- Farm School
- Father Goose (Charles Ghigna)
- Finding Wonderland
- Florian Cafe
- Fuse #8 Production, A
- Gotta Book
- Gracenotes (Grace Lin)
- Greetings from Nowhere
- I.N.K. (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids)
- Imagine & Create
- Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup
- Jarrett J. Krosoczka's blog
- Jen Robinson's Book Page
- Laura Purdie Salas
- Liz in Ink
- Michael Salinger's Blog
- Miss Rumphius Effect, The
- Mitali's Fire Escape
- MotherReader
- My Juicy Little Universe (Heidi Mordhorst)
- On Point (Lorie Ann Grover)
- Painting Bunnies (Anna Alter)
- PaperTigers Blog
- Poem Farm (Amy Ludwig VanDerwater)
- Poetry Time Blog (Charles Waters)
- Poetry for Children
- Political Verses
- Random Noodling (Diane Mayr)
- Read Roger
- Read Write Believe
- Rebecca's Writing Journey
- Saints and Spinners
- Sara Holbrook's Blog
- Scrub-a-Dub-Tub
- Seven Impossible Things
- Solitary Grace, A
- Teach Poetry K-12
- Three Silly Chicks
- Through the Studio Door
- Wordswimmer
- Write Time
- Writing and Ruminating
- Wrung Sponge, A
- Year of Reading, A
Labels
- 2008 Kidlit Bloggers Conference (1)
- 7-Imp interview (1)
- a perfect pair (4)
- Abraham Lincoln (3)
- acrostic poems (52)
- Allison (2)
- animal poems (6)
- apostrophe/poems of address (2)
- Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (1)
- autumn picture books (5)
- autumn poems (5)
- Baby Poems (2)
- Back to School (7)
- Banned Books Week (2)
- Best Books of the Year (1)
- biographies (1)
- Black History Month (15)
- Blog the Vote (1)
- Blogging (1)
- Blue Rose Girls (6)
- Book Awards (2)
- Book Bunch (6)
- Book Lists (54)
- book spine poems (1)
- books in verse (7)
- Children's Book Week (4)
- Children's Books (1)
- children's poetry (96)
- children's poets (18)
- Chinese New Year (2)
- Christmas Books (14)
- Christmas Poems (5)
- classroom connections (12)
- color poems (5)
- Cybils (15)
- Cybils 2009 (5)
- Cybils 2010 (3)
- Cybils 2011 (3)
- Douglas Florian (5)
- Elaine's original poems (402)
- Elaine's videos (3)
- Election and Political Books (1)
- fairy tale poems (22)
- food poems (1)
- Foundation for Children's Books (4)
- Grace Lin (19)
- great read-alouds for little listeners (4)
- haiku (10)
- Halloween Books (14)
- Halloween Poems (3)
- Hanukkah Books (9)
- Here and There (35)
- Here's a Poem About... (5)
- Holiday Books (2)
- How-to Poems (1)
- I Am Looking for a Poem About... (7)
- interviews (13)
- J. Patrick Lewis (10)
- Janet Wong (25)
- Joyce Sidman (8)
- Julia (5)
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- Keene State College (3)
- Lee Bennett Hopkins (18)
- letter poems (2)
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- List Poems (39)
- Mary Ann Hoberman (6)
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- Memoir Poems (6)
- National Day on Writing (1)
- National Poetry Month (91)
- National Poetry Month 2010 (38)
- National Poetry Month 2011 (30)
- National Poetry Month 2012 (29)
- National Poetry Month 2013 (14)
- National Poetry Month 2014 (3)
- National Poetry Month 2016 (3)
- National Poetry Month 2017 (5)
- National Poetry Month 2018 (20)
- National Poetry Month 2019 (26)
- Native American Heritage Month (5)
- NCTE (7)
- no poems (1)
- nonfiction picture books (20)
- Out and About (35)
- Palinoems (6)
- PAS North Shore Council (14)
- Paul Janeczko (1)
- picture book reviews (35)
- poem-a-day (30)
- poetry anthologies (2)
- Poetry Book Reviews (1)
- Poetry for Young Children (1)
- Poetry Friday (298)
- Poetry Friday Roundup (13)
- Poetry Videos (1)
- Public Schools (1)
- Rebecca Kai Dotlich (3)
- riddle rhymes (1)
- Robert's Snow (37)
- School Stories (5)
- sea (1)
- seasonal poetry (49)
- Small Graces (22)
- Spring Books (2)
- spring poems (3)
- summer poems (3)
- summertime picture books and poetry (9)
- Thanksgiving Books (8)
- Thanksgiving Poetry (3)
- Things (1)
- Things to Do (25)
- Turley (1)
- What do you do with a book like this? (3)
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (4)
- winter books (2)
- Women's History Month (11)
- writing poetry with children (8)
2 comments:
These are adorable, Elaine.
I identify most with the third one, though :).
Oh! I love "Things to do if you're a star." It would be perfect to use for summer reading this year. I've only written a couplet once (when I had to write a Shaespearean sonnet in a Brit Lit class). Maybe I should try them again.
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