Joanna Marple
In my 20's, with only my guitar and a rucksack, I wandered the continents, immersing myself in the lives of some wonderful people, projects and stories, which changed the way I view my responsibility to others and this earth. Right now I'm a European transplant in the US who writes books for children and young adults. Stories can help us not only navigate our world but can connect us to others, and allow us to inspire and help each other. I believe that equity and empathy should be at the core of our all actions, words, and stories. I am also a school librarian and I get a kick out of book-matchmaking! And I use the pronouns she/her.
Diverse Children’s Books
12×12 Challenge
Category Archives: poetry
2nd Annual Christmas Story Competition
The Contest: Write a children’s holiday story beginning with any version of “Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh.” You may use that actual opening, or you may change it to any similar version “[Verb of your … Continue reading
Posted in competition, conservation, poetry
Tagged Christmas, competition, poem, Susanna
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A – Z Endangered Species Haiku
The skies are blue and we are air born for today’s Around the World in Fifty Weeks. Our V – W haiku whisk us off to some Islands; Indonesia & New Zealand, the Galapagos Islands and the Channel islands of … Continue reading
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Tagged children's potery, Endangered Species, Haiku, velvet worms, waved albatross, xantos murrelet
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A – Z Endangered Species Haiku
Around the world in fifty weeks aboard our hot air balloon is air-bound as we speak. S – U haiku will transport you today to the Pacific ocean, the asian continent and the woodlands of Europe, to pique our conservational … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Coville, Endangered Species, Haiku, Jane Yolen, Kathleen Duey, steller sea-lion, tiger, unicorn
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