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The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations

Sylvia Vardell, Janet Wong

The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations

eBook (Pomelo Books June 15, 2015)

NEW and BILINGUAL! The Poetry Friday Anthology for CELEBRATIONS is now available by individual months!

This listing refers to the Children’s AUGUST E-book Edition of this book. Separate paperback versions with all twelve months combined are available in a Children’s Edition and Teacher/Librarian Edition.

Celebrate all year long with The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations in e-books divided into 12 months—a total of 156 poems in English and SPANISH ideal for preK - grade 6.

This latest book in The Poetry Friday Anthology series offers 12 holiday poems plus a “Birthdays and Baby Days” poem for each per month. Choose your favorite celebrations for each month! This AUGUST e-book contains poems about the following: Family Fun Month, National Farmers’ Market Week, Watermelon Day, Birthday of the NBA, Dollar Day, Shark Week, World Elephant Day, First Day of School, National Tell a Joke Day, National Thrift Shop Day, National Aviation Day, and National Waffle Day, plus a “Birthdays and Baby Days” poem.

About the PoetsThe complete editions of THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR CELEBRATIONS feature poems by 115 poets. These are the poets with poems featured in the August e-book:

Francisco X. AlarcónBuffy SilvermanTricia Stohr-HuntCharles WatersAnn Whitford PaulKate CoombsIrene LathamDeborah RuddellMichelle SchaubApril Halprin WaylandTamera Will WissingerAllan WolfJ. Patrick Lewis

Find more celebrations and free poems at PoetryCelebrations.com!

About the AuthorsSylvia Vardell is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University and has taught graduate courses in children's and young adult literature at various universities since 1981. Vardell has published extensively, including five books on literature for children.

Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and former lawyer who switched careers and became a children’s poet. Her dramatic career change has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN’s Paula Zahn Show, and Radical Sabbatical. She is the author of 30 books for children and teens.

Together they are the creative force behind Pomelo Books (PomeloBooks.com).

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56

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