April is one of my favorite months for many reasons. We have spring break in April, the forsythia blooms, and it’s National Poetry Month! Today, as I was gathering resources and thinking about ways to celebrate, I had fun creating a few book spine poems.
Look! Look! Look!
Outside your Window
The Tree That Time Built
Forest Has a Song
Red Sings from Treetops
The Frogs and Toads all Sang
Joyful Noise
Splash!
in the swim
Sea Stars
At the Sea Floor Cafe
Firefly July
When the Moon is Full
Up North at the Cabin
Toasting Marshmallows
A Stick is an Excellent Thing
Lemonade
Cookies
Orange Pear Apple Bear
Animal Snackers
Tea Party Rules
Thank you, as always, to Stacey, Tara, Dana, Betsy, Anna, and Beth for hosting the Slice of Life Challenge. Be sure to visit Two Writing Teachers to read more Slice of Life posts.
Reading to the Core 
What a creative way to celebrate the wonderful month ahead…your poetry book titles became a poem!! And you got me excited to start pulling out my favorite poetry books. Thanks for getting me excited about this wonderful form of writing!
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I love that! How fun!
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A very “meta” approach to poetry. Nice 🙂
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Love these! A lot of writers have been publishing these. It amazes me the great variety we come up with. The first one here is really my favorite. I love trees.
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These are fantastic! I am honored to see FOREST in a book spine poem! Thank you! xo
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Thanks for the reminder of the spine poems! It amazes me how they usually turn out!
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Catherine, these are such happy poems celebrating spring, and all those things we’re looking forward to. Terrific discoveries!
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Love the poems, but also he books that form each line.
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I love the poems, and what a lovely way to create them!!
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So fun! I need to do this and want to try it with a class tomorrow!!!
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I LOVE book spine poems, and yours are fantastic! I love the first one and the one that begins “Firefly July” the most. Yay for April and National Poetry Month!
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How fun! I love how your grouped your different books into sets that made fun poems to read. I need to play around with my poetry spines too.
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I love, love, love your spine poems! They are all so timely. We can’t wait for spring here!
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You are so creative!
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I’m putting book spine poetry on my list to do at our summer writing academy. Thanks for the reminders about it.
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