Product Description
The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lawry's popular "Gooney Bird" series! It's a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School--the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm as possible this month, because Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. Who knew there could be so many different ways to write a poem? Haikus, couplets, limericks--Mrs. Pidgeon's students soon find that writing good poetry takes a lot of hard work and creative thinking. Gooney Bird and her classmates are up to the challenge. But just when things are going well, the kids get some terrible news. Gooney Bird will need all the inspiration her brain can muster to orgainize the most important poem the class has ever written.
About the Author
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of ther novels, "Number the Stars" and "The Giver". Her first novel, "A Summer to Die", was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and a farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com.
Middy Thomas ia a native Mainer. Raised and educated in Maine, but she decided long ago the state wasn't enough. So she lived and traveled many of the states, Central America and abroad -- mostly with paint brush in hand. She does many different things in art, from all mediums in painting, printing and sculpture. She also teaches two art classes a week in her studio. In addition to illustrating the "Gooney Bird" series, Middy has done cover art and illustrations for several books. She says, "My whole life has been involved with my work...nothing is too small or too large, I enjoy it all."
