Writing a Small Poem
What’s the story? After years of hearing “No” when I sent out my book manuscripts, I heard “Yes” three times in three months! Hooray! I was going to be a published author at last. I was told that it usually took two years for a book to be published, so I kept writing new books and settled in for the long wait.
To my surprise, Man on the Moon, the book illustrated by the mother with a new baby, came out the following year! The 1997 cover (above) shows Neil Armstrong’s foot touching the moon. Five years later, the paperback came out with a new cover (below) and this version of the book is still in print today.
My father worked with NASA in the early days, so my goal was to tell this true (free verse) story to young readers like the ones I had taught in Kindergarten and first grade. I was quite pleased when it was reprinted in two classroom readers: one from Pearson Education and one from National Geographic.
Way back when, I did virtual school visits for classrooms that had read Man on the Moon in their readers. Now I’m doing them again because NASA is going *back* to the moon with Artemis. That’s my MOON story.
Now it’s your turn! What is your MOON story?
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