Welcome to Monsterville - Rothenberg, Michael

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Résumé :
Welcome to Monsterville, where the residents are anything but ordinary. The monsters here are friendly! thoughtful! shy and scary, much like their human neighbors. Readers will meet a monster house who plays hopscotch and makes the sidewalks quake, laugh at a bubblegum-headed monster's epic tantrum, and cry with a monster called Sadness. This quirky collection of illustrated poems is a celebration of friendship, emotional intelligence, and creative play as a form of healing....

Biographie:
Laura Shovan is a children's author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies for children and adults. Laura's middle grade novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, won multiple awards, including NCTE Notable Verse Novel. Her novel Takedown was selected for Junior Library Guild, PJ Our Way, and the ALA's Amelia Bloomer/Rise Feminist Books Project. A Place at the Table, written with author/activist Saadia Faruqi, is a Sydney Taylor Notable. Laura is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council and serves on the faculty of VCFA's MFA program in Writing for Children and Young adults. www.laurashovan.com...

Sommaire:
Laura Shovan is a children's author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies for children and adults. Laura's middle grade novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, won multiple awards, including NCTE Notable Verse Novel. Her novel Takedown was selected for Junior Library Guild, PJ Our Way, and the ALA's Amelia Bloomer/Rise Feminist Books Project. A Place at the Table, written with author/activist Saadia Faruqi, is a Sydney Taylor Notable. Laura is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council and serves on the faculty of VCFA's MFA program in Writing for Children and Young adults. www.laurashovan.com...