Boom! Bellow! Bleat!

Animal Poems for Two or More Voices

Illustrated by Aaron DeWitt
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On sale Jul 11, 2023 | 32 Pages | 9781662660160

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This playful collection of poems--peppered with an astounding variety of animal sounds--is meant to be read aloud together.

These poems for two or more voices explore the myriad sounds animals make--from a frog's jug-o-rum to a fish's boom! to an elephant's bark. Laced with humor, the poems are a delight to read aloud and cover all major classes of animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, even a crustacean! Readers will learn how to estimate the temperature by counting a cricket's chirps and see how creatures make sounds at specific pitches and frequencies, so that they can be heard despite other noise around them. Extensive end notes provide more information on the animals and how and why they make the sounds they do. Written by noted children's poet Georgia Heard, this is an ideal collection for parents and children to share, or for a fun, interactive classroom read-aloud.
Georgia Heard is the author of 20 books including her newest Welcome to the Wonder House (co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich), a collection of two-voiced poems Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two Or More Voices and Creatures of Earth and Sky, among others. Georgia is the NCTE 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award Winner. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University and is a founding member of the Columbia University’s Teacher College Reading and Writing Project and the author of numerous professional books including Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School which was cited by Instructor Magazine as one of the “10 Books Every Teacher Should Read,” and Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Student Writing about which she was invited to give a TEDX talk: Mapping Your Heart: https://bit.ly/3MF6HEe. She is also the co-author of A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope written during the pandemic.
Georgia lives in Singer Island, Florida with her family. Visit her website at georgiaheard.com. Twitter and IG: @georgiaheard1 View titles by Georgia Heard
Aaron DeWitt is the illustrator of Dreaming of You by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and of several Hallmark children's books, including All the Ways I Love You by Theresa Trinder. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Visit him at aarondewitt.squarespace.com. View titles by Aaron DeWitt

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This playful collection of poems--peppered with an astounding variety of animal sounds--is meant to be read aloud together.

These poems for two or more voices explore the myriad sounds animals make--from a frog's jug-o-rum to a fish's boom! to an elephant's bark. Laced with humor, the poems are a delight to read aloud and cover all major classes of animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, even a crustacean! Readers will learn how to estimate the temperature by counting a cricket's chirps and see how creatures make sounds at specific pitches and frequencies, so that they can be heard despite other noise around them. Extensive end notes provide more information on the animals and how and why they make the sounds they do. Written by noted children's poet Georgia Heard, this is an ideal collection for parents and children to share, or for a fun, interactive classroom read-aloud.

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Georgia Heard is the author of 20 books including her newest Welcome to the Wonder House (co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich), a collection of two-voiced poems Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two Or More Voices and Creatures of Earth and Sky, among others. Georgia is the NCTE 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award Winner. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University and is a founding member of the Columbia University’s Teacher College Reading and Writing Project and the author of numerous professional books including Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School which was cited by Instructor Magazine as one of the “10 Books Every Teacher Should Read,” and Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Student Writing about which she was invited to give a TEDX talk: Mapping Your Heart: https://bit.ly/3MF6HEe. She is also the co-author of A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope written during the pandemic.
Georgia lives in Singer Island, Florida with her family. Visit her website at georgiaheard.com. Twitter and IG: @georgiaheard1 View titles by Georgia Heard
Aaron DeWitt is the illustrator of Dreaming of You by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and of several Hallmark children's books, including All the Ways I Love You by Theresa Trinder. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Visit him at aarondewitt.squarespace.com. View titles by Aaron DeWitt

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