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Our children are gorgeously diverse and they love a good read. At the heart of Real Kids/ Good Books are authors and illustrators who are building a new diverse canon, book by dazzling book.
Themes include: children of color, LGBTQ, adoption, special needs, math, science and writing. And of course there is also a mishmash of miscellany and reblogged tidbits that strike my fancy as they float by.
Thanks for stopping by.
-Kate
Our children are gorgeously diverse and they love a good read. At the heart of Real Kids/ Good Books are authors and illustrators who are building a new diverse canon, book by dazzling book.
Themes include: children of color, LGBTQ, adoption, special needs, math, science and writing. And of course there is also a mishmash of miscellany and reblogged tidbits that strike my fancy as they float by.
Thanks for stopping by.
-Kate
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World (2008), edited by Jan Greenberg.
Q: What is ekphrasis?
A: Poetry inspired by art.
Side by Side takes the reader on a journey all over the world, seeing art and hearing poetry. Bhutan, Turkey, Japan, Mexico, the Navajo Nation, Sweden, Uruguay, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Argentina, Vietnam…
Most of the poems are too complex for the elementary set, but the project of writing poetry inspired by artwork seems like a ready-made school writing activity.
