![]() ![]() ![]() Visit her website, to find book trailers, poetry ideas, and far too many photos of her dog, Watson. She also teaches poetry writing to schoolchildren and explores the woods and fields in her home state of Minnesota. Joyce Sidman is the author of many innovative children’s poetry books, including the Newbery Honor-winning Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night and two Caldecott Honor books, Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems and Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors. What does its shape remind you of? For more about this book, and about pond creatures, go to: Just for fun, I made this poem into a “concrete” or shape poem. Sometimes I feel like doing that, too-going to sleep and skipping winter altogether. A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book From springs first thaw to autumns chill. In late fall, pond creatures like this painted turtle sink down into it to protect themselves from freezing during the long winter months. Buy a cheap copy of Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond. Inside, my eyes close, my heart slowsĬopyright © 2005 Joyce Sidman. From the book Song of the Water Boatman: And Other Pond Poems. HMH Books for Young Readers. Year, here, I sink and settle, shuttered like a ![]()
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