NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 7

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems.

Near one cattail
frogs sing songs
Hidden in the grass
a nest full of eggs
A celebration of bees
flip, float, fly
Red sings from treetops
and then it’s spring

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved.

Sources

• Near One Cattail: Turtles, Logs, and Leaping Frogs by Anthony D. Fredericks, illustrations by Jennifer DiRabbio
• Frogs Sing Songs by Yvonne Winer, illustrations by Tony Oliver
• Hidden in the Grass by Barbara Taylor
• A Nest Full of Eggs by Priscilla Belz Jenkins, illustrations by Lizzy Rockwell
• A Celebration of Bees: Helping Children to Write Poetry by Barbara Juster Esbensen
• Red Sings From Treetops: A Year In Colors by Joyce Sidman, illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski
• And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano, illustrations by Erin E. Stead

I hope you'll come back again to see what new poem I've cobbled together. You can find all the poems I've written this month on the Book Spine Poems page.