First Week of National Poetry Month Book Winner

I am happy to announce that the winner of Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word is Charles Waters.

Congratulations, Charles! Email me your address and I’ll send the book off to you.

My poetry book giveaway for the second week of National Poetry Month (April 7-13) will be Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles—which was written by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. This is a most enjoyable book of verses that challenge readers to name the book that is described in each riddle. (NOTE: I’ll announce the winner of Spot the Plot on Sunday, April 14^th.)

Here is one selection from the book. I know you’ll all be able to “name the book.” It’s one of my granddaughter Julia’s favorites.

There is a book

I know you know—

the perfect bedtime

book, although

the rabbit who

has gone to bed

can’t fall asleep

until she’s said

to many of

her closest friends,

Goodnight. Goodnight….

And so it ends.

And here is the shortest riddle in the book of book riddles:

Click here to listen to J. Patrick Lewis read three riddles from Spot the Plot.

Click here to look inside the book.

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Recommendation: If you like Spot the Plot, I’m sure you’ll enjoy challenging yourself with the adult book riddles in Maurice Sagoff’s ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World’s Classics Cut Down to Size.

Click here to look inside the book.

Here is Sagoff’s "shrunken" version of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment from the book:

Up-tight student

Axes pair.

Fearful, with the

Cops aware.

Yet vainglorious,

He won't chicken

Till by saintly

Sonia stricken;

Then confession,

Trial and sentence:

Eight Siberian years.

Repentance

Floods his spirit,

Hang-ups cease,

She will join him

Seeking peace. . .

In that bleak

Siberian hovel,

Watch him, Sonia,

With that shovel.