Bookmaking With Kids

I wish could receive a kid’s poem every day … the way I get a daily poem from The Writer’s Almanac in my email inbox. Young writers—even little kids just learning to write—often have a knack for a turn of phrase that’s unexpected, arresting, heartening.

Click the pictures at left and below to read some 1st grade poems “published” in the envelope-accordion books described in previous posts.

You’ve gotta love this description of outer space:

Stars are shooting
planets are grumbling
dust is everywhere

Or this take on spring flowers:

The flowers open like fireworks
They open fast
It goes like a firework
And it falls back down when spring is over.