Description
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 attentionand to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaidos playful text and Melissa Sweets dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around thempoems just waiting to be written down.
Ages 4 – 8
Length 32 pages
Grade Level PreK – 3
Hardcover
