Forever Emily, June 23 2013

Here I am, dressed up as Emily Dickinson, reciting "I'm nobody, who are you?" Sonoma County had a grant to participate in the NEA's "Big Read" this year, and Dickinson was the target author.

I worked Dickinson's poetry into my lessons at Prestwood School. We studied, "There is no Frigate like a Book." Because the annual "Sitting Room" publication was on the topic of "When I was a child I read..." I was able to get three 3rd graders' poems included in that book.  

Books

When I get my nose in a book

I can read through rain or shine.

A book is like a friend to me

who stays there by my side.

            – ISABELLA BOUCHER

My Favorite Book

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid

is the best book I ever saw.

It makes me want to draw

the picture on the front.

It makes me watch the movie.

            – KEVIN MOYA

A Book

A book is like a flying carpet

that addicts me a lot of the time.

It brings me in and I can’t stop.

It’s like it is stuck to me.

I can’t get out of it.

It is too good to resist.

            – ROLLO BENSTEAD