Sara Holbrook author/poet/educator
July 14, 2017
The pictures are a little grainy with strange stuff in the background. The characters wear old-fashioned clothes and talk funny. Their stories require understanding of situations that readers have never encountered before.
It isn’t that kids don’t like historical fiction; it’s just that sometimes they have trouble seeing themselves in the picture. The pictures
December 5, 2014
“When
we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about
any place, we regain a kind of paradise.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
OMG, it’s coming.
The publisher (Red Giant Press) said the hard copy proof is in the
October 6, 2014
Why are you doing that?
No one else does it that way.
What’s the matter with you?
Creative people don’t like to be told what to do. We can be
annoying. Distracted. Non-compliant. Misfits, who at our worst clog systems and
at our
June 12, 2014
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TWO MORE DAYS?
It’s not the last day. It’s not the first. It’s not the 100th, President’s Day, Valentine’s Day or even crazy sock day. Everyone
December 11, 2013
No one climbs aboard
a bicycle and proclaims, “I want to crash and fall on my head. Bring on the broken bones.” No one puts a
cake in the oven hoping it will come out burned black and tasting like a hockey
puck. Likewise, people don’t get married because they want to
November 18, 2013
Myth #2
Deconstructing
poetry is an advanced academic pursuit while constructing poetry is child’s
play.
Imagine
this. You are called into a classroom
and asked to hunch over images of Tiger Woods swinging a golf club. You answer a set of questions
September 4, 2012
If you are looking for age appropriate poetry to share with your students, check out this new anthology ed. by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. It contains one poem a week for 39 weeks for each grade level, K-5. Poems the kids can relate to, current, challenging, and engaging. Poems for sharing and to provoke conversation
August 2, 2012
Here is a back to school poem for all my teacher/principal/student friends. Or anyone who ever remembers being a student and who maybe, like me, thinks January 1st is somewhat anti-climatic. The real new year begins in the fall.
Poem is from my book Zombies! Evacuate the School! delightfully illustrated
May 2, 2011
October 22, 2010
Once upon a time in the long long ago, parents were the gatekeepers of knowledge for kids. Sharp knives and matches were dispensed to kids on a need to know basis by grown-ups.
Over many generations, that dribble of knowledge begot kids doing their own thinking and writing books which begot libraries. Libraries begot