How to Write a Poem

In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book , Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you. Begin with a question like an acorn waiting for spring. From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido''s playful text and Melissa Sweet''s dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down.

Product details

• Authors: Kwame Alexander, Alexander Kwame, Deanna Nikaido
• Assisted by: Melissa Sweet (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2023
• EAN: 9780063060906
• ISBN: 978-0-06-306090-6
• No. of pages: 32
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play, JUVENILE FICTION / Books & Libraries, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Picture storybooks: imagination and play, Early years / early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry, Literature, books & writers (Children's/Teenage), JUVENILE FICTION: Readers / Beginner, JUVENILE FICTION: Imagination & Play, JUVENILE FICTION: Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) *