Happy Book Birthday to Write! Write! Write! by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. This book is a wonderful companion to Amy’s Read! Read! Read! so I hope you will add it to your collection.

Title: Write! Write! Write!

Author: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Illustrator: Ryan O’Rourke

Publisher: Wordsong, 2020, Poetry

Audience: Ages 5-10

Themes: Writing, Poetry

Opening lines: From “Timeline”:

Writing a sentence

is building a tower

block after block

hour by hour.

I am a writer.

And writing is power.

Synopsis: From Amy’s website: Write! Write! Write! is a poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process, from learning the alphabet to the thrilling moment of writing a thought for the first time, from writer’s block to finding inspiration, and from revision to stapling your finished work into a book. These poems also celebrate how writing teaches patience, helps express opinions, and allows us to imagine the impossible. This book, brimming with imagination and wonder, will leave readers eager to grab a pen, pencil, or keyboard–and write!

Why I Like This Book: The number one reason I like this book:Amy’s poems are so accessible to young readers and writers. In the collection there are examples of many different types of poems – rhyming and non-rhyming, couplets, list poems, acrostic, and poems with repeated lines. All explain some aspect of writing and offer an invitation to write. The illustrations are a perfect accompaniment to the words.

Amy has terrific resources for kids at www.poemfarm.amylv.com

Happy reading (and writing)!