REVIEW 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow”

Today’s review comes from first round Poetry judge, Anastasia Suen, whose blog features a kidlit book of the day, among other offerings! She recently interviewed Lisa Rogers, the author of Elementary/Middle Grade Non-fiction nominee 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Amazon, Indiebound).  I thought this snippet was interesting:  Through a great deal of research and interviews with …

REVIEW Yasmin the Chef

Hi and welcome to the first of this year’s Highlighted Reviews of Nominated BooksTM! We start this year with Kelly Karsner Clarke, who blogs over at Kidlit Underground. She recently reviewed Easy Reader nominee Yasmin the Chef (Amazon, Indiebound), writing:  At 25 pages of text, divided into three chapters, YASMIN THE CHEF as a standalone has the readability of a picture book …

2019 Nominations: Poetry

Please view the full blog post to see a list of all 2018 nominated books in the Poetry category.