Welcome to Poetry Friday, this week hosted by Linda Baie at Teacherdance HERE . Stop by and see what she has for us today. Thank you, Linda!
I enjoyed National Poetry Month so much that I missed National Library week from April 23-29. I love that libraries have always been safe places.
Like many others, I credit my love of books and even much of my happiness when I was young, to both the sense of peace and excitement I found in stories from the library, fiction and non-fiction.
The library I went to when I was a child
I wrote a poem this week thinking of the childhood friend who I knew when I was about seven. I have no idea where she is now, and she has no idea, I’m sure, how grateful I am to her.
MY BOOK FRIEND Jackie, my friend who lived next door. taught me well what books were for. She had no sisters, or brothers, too, but lots of games, more than a few. On Saturday we sat and read the stack of books piled on her bed. “Come to the library,” she said one day and once I did, I longed to stay. So many friends I found in books, with different lives, different looks. Cover to cover, we thought to see who we could grow up to be. ©Janice Scully 2023 (DRAFT)
This week I got two new books in the mail, MONSTERVILLE by Laura Shovan, Illustrated. by Michael Rothenberg,
and FATHER GOOSE: Treasury of poetry, by Charles Ghigna, Illustrated. by Sara Brezzi.
Can’t wait to read them.
I have some reading to do. I’m waiting for this book by my friend, Ellen Ramsey, illustrated by MacKenzie Haley:
It will arrive in July. I hope they all will be available in libraries. Have a great weekend, Everyone. Thank you Linda for hosting Poetry Friday.