The Poetry Foundation has announced that Mary Ann Hoberman will be the second U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate.
Here is a quote from their press release:
The award, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, aims to raise awareness that children have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them. “Generations of readers who first discovered poetry in the books of Mary Ann Hoberman remember it not as a dry textbook encounter but as a moment of joyous play. Her poems tease young minds even as they please young ears with rhythm and rhyme. We honor her for a lifetime of writing poetry of lasting value for young readers,” said John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, in making the appointment.
Hoberman has written so many charming poetry books for children! This is a well-deserved honor.
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Congratulations Mary Ann Hoberman! I am an Elementary School Library Media Specialist in Bellevue, Washington,and I really enjoyed sharing Jack Prelutsky’s website with all our students during library time. I am hoping Ms. Hoberman will create a website that excites students to write their own poetry as well as sharing some of her own. I have a poetry unit I teach in the spring and, along with learning how to write various kinds of poems, students have the opportunity to sit in our famous “Poetry Chair”, recite a poem from memory, and receive a small treat. So, Mary Ann Hoberman, I am hoping you will inspire my students to write and enjoy poetry!!!
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