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How to Write a Poem

By Kwame Alexander, Deanna Nikaido
Illustrators Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher HarperCollins Imprint Quill Tree ISBN

9780063060906

How to Write a Poem

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In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times-bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you.



Begin


with a question


like an acorn


waiting for spring.



From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention—and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido’s playful text and Melissa Sweet’s dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them—poems just waiting to be written down.



Author's note. Illustrator's note. Full-color illustrations were created using watercolor, gouache, mixed media, handmade and vintage papers, and beach pebbles. 
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