Writing a Small Poem
My brothers built homes and my husband is a architect, so building construction has been a part of my life for years. I used our old building construction photographs to help me write this 97 word picture book poem.
When the book was being illustrated, the editor asked if the illustrator could add a dog to the book. I said yes. (We had dogs when I was growing up, so it didn’t seem like an unusual request.) Imagine my surprise when the page proofs for Raise the Roof came and the dog was a builder, too!
A year after the book was published, it came out again (with another publisher) as a PreK literacy program book, making this former Kindergarten ELL teacher very happy! That’s my HOME story.
Now it’s your turn! What is your HOME story?
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