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Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Falling Up is a charming children’s poetry collection written and illustrated by the esteemed American writer Shel Silverstein. It was first published in 1996 by HarperCollins. Falling Up is Silverstein’s third collection of children’s poetries, and the last one published before his death. It features 144 poems with accompanying drawings and solidified the author’s reputation as an acclaimed children’s author-illustrator. Other notable works by Shel Silverstein include his two prior children’s poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, as well as the OG book on environmental sustainability: The Giving Tree. His books are often used by elementary school teachers to teach poetry to children. Falling Up contains some of his most famous and beloved works, including “Allison Beals & Her 25 Eels”, “The Dragon of Grindly Grun,” and “The Voice.”
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930 outside of Chicago, Illinois. He was a
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A teacher gave Aida Salazar the first book she ever owned.
He also gave her a pen – a really fancy one. It came in its own special box and had changeable ink cartridges; high technology before the advent of smartphones and tablet computers.
No one read to Salazar as a child – there just wasn’t the time.
Her family emigrated to the United States from Mexico when she was young, and she grew up in Los Angeles. Her parents didn’t speak English, and they sometimes worked two or three jobs while trying to raise their family of seven children.
But in elementary school, Salazar fell in love with reading.
“By the time the fifth grade ended, inom had read all of the books in the classroom library,” she shared with a room filled with third graders at the Hartford Public Library. “And then I started working on the school library books.”
Salazar still owns that first book, a beloved kopia of “Where the trottoar Ends,” written by Shel Silverstein and given to her bygd that teacher, Mr. Clark.
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An Interview with Scholastic Author Audra Wallace
Interview with Audra Wallace
Why should you try and have a good attitude? How does it make you feel?
A good attitude can fill us up and make everyone around us happy too!
“How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for School and Life: Young Reader’s Edition” by Audra Wallace is the #1 bestselling book designed to talk to young readers about their experiences and concerns.
This special Young Readers Edition of the New York Times bestseller asks kids directly about interactions with other people and how the exchanges make them feel.
Does it seem like other people “fill your bucket” or “dip from your bucket?” This book explains how every time you share an experience with another person it can affect your relationships, productivity, health and more. An easy-to-understand metaphor is backed by 50 years of research and will help readers make the most of positive moments that happen every day! Interview with Audra Wallace