Betsy Franco's Poetry for Younger Readers
Zero Is The Leaves On The Tree (Hardcover)
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Published: Tricycle Press, 08/01/2009
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Published: Candlewick, 07/01/2009
Out on the playground, kids are skipping rope and making trades. In the library, they’re whispering, fidgeting, and giggling. In the classroom, they’re learning their lessons....or spinning tales about why they haven’t turned in their homework. Throughout this collection of nineteen poems — ideal for reading aloud in pairs, but just as much fun with one or many — words, pictures, and voices erupt in an irresistible invitation to join an exhilarating ride around school. So hop on the bus! The pencils are tapping, the clock is ticking, and reports are due...tomorrow?
Pond Circle (Hardcover)
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry, 06/01/2009
One summer night by a small pond, mayflies dart, beetles dive, frogs spring, skunks shuffle, and owls swoop.
As a young girl watches, the circle of life unfolds. The rhythmic, cumulative story and rich, luminous paintings capture the bold beauty of nature. Take a short journey into one backyard and experience all the wonder of the living, breathing world around us.
A Curious Collection of Cats (Hardcover)
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Published: Tricycle Press, 04/01/2009
The quirky ways of cats are exquisitely captured in more than thirty original visual poems. From acrobat-flipping to toilet-bowl-sipping, couch-scratching to dog-catching, this insightful collection celebrates the fickle feline in ways
that any cat lover will appreciate.
"Every cat lover in the universe ought to own this endearingly wacky collection of poems accompanied by purrfect art. It's an homage to burnish a coffee table...or freshen a litter box. Cats, as Betsy Franco knows, read too." --J. Patrick Lewis
"Step aside Mr. Eliot! Make room for Ms. Franco's fabulous cast of felines. This marriage of concrete poetry and art is one to pore and purr over again and again." --Lee Bennett Hopkins
“Cat lovers will recognize the standoffs with arching backs, the cozy touch of the “purrfect” scarf on their shoulders, and the tech-savvy cat who walks across the keyboard to add her own note to an e-mail to a friend.”—Booklist
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry, 08/01/2008
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds.
Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places.
Mathematickles! (Paperback)
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Published: McElderry, 07/01/2006
This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division, simple graphs, and more!
Birdsongs (Hardcover)
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry, 01/01/2007
The sky is quiet.
The yard is quiet.
The creek is quietly gurgling.
Then...tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! A red-capped woodpecker starts his rap for the day. Next comes nine soft coos from the mourning doves, followed by the chipping of a flurry of sparrows. And on go the birdsongs throughout the day.
Celebrate neighborhood birds in this poetic picture book, and count their sounds backward from ten to one, until all is quiet in the yard again.
Summer Beat (Hardcover)
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry, 04/01/2007
Clackity-clack, clackity-clack. A skateboard flies over sidewalk squares.
Whoosh pumf, whoosh pumf. Water balloons tossed through the air.
Bizzle-bzzz, bizzle-bzzz. A bumblebee comes zipping by.
Tzooooooooooo bang. Tzooooooooooo bang.Fireworks start for the Fourth of July!
The sounds of summer sizzle and pop in this bouncing,swinging tribute to the best beats of every child's favorite season.
Counting Our Way to the 100th Day! (Hardcover)
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry, 07/01/2004
It takes just a poem a day to count down to the 100th day of school!
Keep count with numbers.
Keep count with stars.
Keep count with beans
in a big glass jar.
Keep a long tally
and keep count with pins.
Keep track of how many
days there've been.
Keep count by ones.
Keep count by tens.
Keep count each day
and wait, wait, wait.
In February --
celebrate!
