NEW and BILINGUAL! The Poetry Friday Anthology for CELEBRATIONS is now available by individual months!
This listing refers to the Children’s JULY
E-book Edition of this book.
Separate paperback versions with all twelve months combined are available in a Children’s Edition and Teacher/Librarian Edition.
Celebrate all year long with The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations in e-books divided into 12 months—a total of 156 poems in English and SPANISH ideal for preK - grade 6.
This latest book in The Poetry Friday Anthology series offers 12 holiday poems plus a “Birthdays and Baby Days” poem for each per month. Choose your favorite celebrations for each month! This JULY e-book contains poems about the following: end of Ramadan, National Picnic Month, Halfway Day, Independence Day, Video Games Day, Paper Bag Day, Obon, Blessing of the Boats, National Moon Walk Day, National Hammock Day, National Ice Cream Day, International Day of Friendship, plus a “Birthdays and Baby Days” poem.
About the Poets
The complete editions of THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR CELEBRATIONS feature poems by 115 poets. These are the poets with poems featured in the July e-book:
Ibtisam Barakat
Susan Blackaby
Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Linda Dryfhout
Douglas Florian
Jane Heitman Healy
Sara Holbrook
Laura Purdie Salas
Holly Thompson
Lee Wardlaw
Janet Wong
Find more celebrations and free poems at PoetryCelebrations.com!
About the Authors
Sylvia Vardell is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University and has taught graduate courses in children's and young adult literature at various universities since 1981. Vardell has published extensively, including five books on literature for children.
Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and former lawyer who switched careers and became a children’s poet. Her dramatic career change has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN’s Paula Zahn Show, and Radical Sabbatical. She is the author of 30 books for children and teens.
Together they are the creative force behind Pomelo Books (PomeloBooks.com).
