Providing pre-K — grade 12 teachers with poetry across the curriculum

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THINGS WE FEEL is on the 2023-24 Keystone to Reading Book Award list for Preschool and Kindergarten! It is an enormous honor to have our book on this list — and we need your help in spreading the word so children can enjoy our book and vote!
Teachers must apply to participate as a Voting Classroom; find more info here.
THANKS to all the kids who voted for HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving, our book won the 2021 Kids' Book Choice Awards "Best Book of Facts" category!
POETRY + FACTS = a WINNING combination!!
Read more about the book here.
During the pandemic, we were given new challenges. In response we've been innovating — finding ways to make this a better world. Here at Pomelo Books, one big change we made is to create books as fundraisers. We are donating 100% of the profits from our new books to charity.
Profits our "THINGS WE" series — Things We Do, Things We Eat, Things We Feel, and Things We Wear — as well as books in our "WHAT IS" series — What Is a Family?, What Is a Friend?, and the forthcoming What Is Hope? — will benefit children in many countries through the IBBY Children in Crisis Fund (via USBBY).
#InThisTogether became a popular slogan during the pandemic because it's so true: we are all connected. We hope our new fundraiser books inspire you and your children, too.
If you're in a hurry, Amazon will send you our books in a few days. If you have a little more time or you'd like to use a purchase order, we recommend contacting QEP Books, a small company with stellar customer service. Call them at (800) 323-6787. Or send us an email and we'll be happy to reach out to your favorite bookseller!
Successful K-12 teachers and administrators build regular “touch points” into their routines to create a safe and engaging learning environment. Poetry can be a powerful tool for offering a shared literary experience in just a few minutes, with both curricular benefits and emotional connections for students at all levels.
Our books in The Poetry Friday Anthology® series and the Poetry Friday Power Book series, as well as the morning announcement poems in GREAT MORNING: Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud, make it easy to use poetry for integrating skills, building language learning, crossing curricular areas, mentoring young writers, promoting critical thinking, fostering social-emotional development, and inviting students to respond creatively. A shared poetry moment can help build a classroom community filled with kindness, respect, and joy!
If you can't decide which poetry books to buy, a good bet is HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving. With 100 poems on a wide variety of topics — and "fact bubbles" for each poem — there's something for everybody. But reach out to the book experts at QEP and ask them for advice!
WINNER - Kids' Book Choice Awards, "Best Book of Facts" (Ages 8-12)
Breathe. Stretch. Wiggle. Dance. March. Stomp. Reach!
HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving contains 100 poems that incorporate
a wide variety of movements—including deskercise! You'll find poems on “2020 topics,” too, such as life during a pandemic, virtual learning, staying connected with friends, and standing up for what you believe in.
Take a "30-second indoor recess" (or "brain break") whenever you need it!
Take a look at the fabulous poets who are featured in this book here
and enjoy a sneak peek at some of the poems in the book here!
Perfect for those first few minutes of a Zoom session
when people are still entering the room—and a great way to start
any meeting or any class on a positive note, whether virtually or in person!
Principals, teachers, and student leaders will find poems on many useful topics in GREAT Morning! Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud, from community and gratitude to school safety and respect to celebrating the teamwork of teachers and staff members such as the school nurse. Invite your superintendent, local celebrities, and parents to be guest readers!
All of our books feature inclusive poems by diverse poets, but K-12 teachers and students will recognize diversity especially in the interactive writing journals and stories (with characters you'll root for) in the Poetry Friday Power Book series—HERE WE GO, PET CRAZY, and YOU JUST WAIT—
books that get kids thinking about ways to change the world,
help their neighbors, and discover their inner greatness.
Pressed for time? STEM learning takes just a minute with a poem! Our books for K-12 teachers in The Poetry Friday Anthology® series include curricular connections to social studies (history, geography), the arts, PE/movement, and science, technology, engineering, and math. The Student Edition of our science book, The Poetry of Science, contains 30 bonus poems and arranges poems by topic for deeper independent learning.
Tell us about your teaching, inservice, and conference needs—whether in-person or virtual! We love sharing our passion for poetry with teachers, librarians, administrators, and parents. Give us your dream scenario, and we can design a program to fit your needs with Zoom sessions or a back-and-forth writing program conducted with students via email, Padlet, and Google Docs. You can see a list of our upcoming speaking events on the Contact page and find many videos of us (and our poets) in action at Vimeo.com/PomeloBooks.