Librarian Prep List for April
April is Poetry Month and April 22 is Earth Day this year, so we’ve made a list to help you get ready for both of them! Read More
Tag: poetry
My 5-Year-Old Asks Calef Brown Questions about The Ghostly Carousel
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
As I mentioned in yesterday’s interview on the blog, my 5-year-old is a bit obsessed with Calef Brown’s new poetry collection, The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems. Read More
3 Great Tips for Sharing Seeing into Tomorrow
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
In a casual conversation with Nina Crews, I mentioned that my younger son (who was 4 at the time) was a bit too young to really understand Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright. Nina selected the haiku for the book, created photo-collage illustrations, and wrote a brief biography of Wright along with other back matter elements. She also knows a thing or two about sharing books with kids of all ages. Read More
How to Perform a Poem: Tips from Author & Actor Charles Waters
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
Happy National Poetry Month! Poetry is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also intimidating—especially if you’re reading a poem aloud to a group of people. So I asked poet and actor Charles Waters to give all of us non-actors a little advice. Read More
Writing, Editing, and Sharing Poetry from Can I Touch Your Hair?
By Libby Stille, Associate Publicist
In January of 2015, editor Carol Hinz had an idea for a children’s poetry picture book that discussed race in a way that would be accessible to middle-grade audiences. She reached out to poet and children’s author Irene Latham and asked her to suggest a partner for the project. Irene chose poet Charles Waters to write with her, and many drafts, phone calls, and revisions later the book became Can I Touch Your Hair?.
Can I Touch Your Hair? has received two starred reviews and has been used in grade school, middle school, and even high school classrooms across the country to facilitate open and honest conversations about race. I asked Irene, Charles, and Carol to share how they created this incredible, sensitive book and also how the book has been received by young readers. Here is their conversation.