Gary Soto Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/gary-soto Children's Literature Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Jen Bryant https://www.bookologymagazine.com/interviews/jen-bryant https://www.bookologymagazine.com/interviews/jen-bryant#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:00:03 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=8814 In this interview with Jen Bryant, author of A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, our Bookstorm™ this month.
Do you recall the first time you encountered a William Carlos Williams poem?
I was in high school—and it was part of an anthology reading that we did for English class. I had disliked/not understood/ been unmoved by all of the other poems in this assigned reading (I recall that the language in those poems was archaic and flowery, and the forms very, VERY traditional)—and then—whooosh—like a breath of fresh air, here were a few selected W.… more

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To get you started on the Bookstorm™ books …
13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System, by David A. Aguilar. National Geographic Children’s Books, 2011.  Grades 2–6

Report material galore, beautifully organized
Illustrated with a combination of photographs and digital art
Includes several hands-on activities

Car Science: an Under-the-Hood, Behind-the-Dash Look at How Cars Work, by Richard Hammond, DK Books, 2008.… more

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