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Poetry books

Dr. Sylvia Vardell discusses some of the professional books that she has written for teachers and librarians.

Peer pressure

During junior high, Jack Prelutsky believed that poetry was hazardous to his health. 

Don't worry about the audience

Forget writer’s block! Once you free up children to tell their own stories, the words can flow. “Write as much as you want and tell everything and put it all on the page. Then rewrite it …”

Where the imagination lives

There’s a little room in your head which has a door with no handle. It is fed by everything you remember about what you have thought, done, everybody you’ve met, everything you’ve read.

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