Reading Through Life

Title: Warrior Girl Author: Carmen Tafolla Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Pages: 209 Review Copy: ARC via publisher Availability: On sh...

Title: A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart Author: Zetta Elliott Illustrator: Noa Denmon Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux ...

Alyson Beecher over at  Kid Lit Frenzy  hosts a Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge and has a roundup every Wednesday. I love the encou...

  Alyson Beecher over at  Kid Lit Frenzy  hosts a Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge and has a roundup every Wednesday. I love the enc...

Ruth Ayres  has a link-up on weekends where people link to posts that are celebrations about their week. I love this reminder to cele...

Diverse Children's Books  is a brand new book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children's books that feat...

Title: Monsters, Zombies + Addicts: Poems Author: Gwendolyn Zepeda Publisher:  Arte Publico Genre: Poetry Pages: 84 Review copy: Fi...

Title: The Red Pencil Author:  Andrea Davis Pinkney Publisher:  Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 336 Review Copy: Digital ...

I am excited to see that there is a new Poetry Friday Anthology coming out. Syvia Vardell and Janet Wong shared their news and are hosti...

This weekend I am planning to go see Sarah Kay in Chicago. I love her spoken word poetry. Here is one of the poems from her recent book No M...

I love this poem duet - or I guess the correct terminology is poem in two voices. Happy Friday! 

In honor of Poetry Month here are a few of my favorite poetry books.  What are some of your favorites?

I am not actually posting a poem, but would like to point you to a few poetry posts that I wrote for Rich in Color. Here is a list of div...

I love that we focus on poetry in April. I made a couple of poetry lists over on Rich in Color if you would like some diverse young adult po...

Piles of Poetry is one of the posts that I put together over on Rich in Color. The post was about some great diverse young adult poetry in...

I was so happy to stumble across several great poetry videos. The one above may be found on the YouTube Channel of Renee LaTulippe. ...

In reading some of the books on the Nerdy short-list, found here , I have come across a few noteworthy poems this past week. Some of them we...

Jen & Kellee over at  Teach Mentor Texts  host a meme every Monday that invites people to share the children's and young adu...