Poetry Friday Hosting & Wait, Rest, Pause Companion Books
Welcome Poetry Friday friends! I’m hosting this week. I hope you’ll enjoy reading everyone’s posts. Drop your link in the roundup at the end.
Wait, Rest, Pause Companion Books
Way back in pre-COVID times, my book WAIT, REST, PAUSE: DORMANCY IN NATURE came out in the fall of 2019. I wrote it because as a fourth grade science teacher, I had to teach about dormancy, but I couldn’t find anything to read to my students that covered dormancy.
Since then, several other books have come out that touch on various types of dormancy and dovetail nicely with my book. I’d recommend all three! I often get asked, “What else can we read that connects to your book?” Here are some great suggestions.
by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Claudine Gevry
Millbrook Press, 2019
by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sarah Brannen
Charlesbridge, 2021
by Jessica Kulekjian, illustrated by Salini Perera
Kids Can Press, 2022
If you are interested in a signed book plate for WAIT, REST, PAUSE, you can sign up here. I will snail mail you a signed book plate.
Haiku of the Week
Christmas Day—
a face in the pine needles
petrified from the cold
Haiku & Photo © 2022 Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Photo Taken: December 25, 2022 at my parents’ house in Virginia
Haiku Written: December 27, 2022
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What I’m Reading
Spare by Prince Harry
I know this book has received much criticism, but I’m listening and I’m finding this book heartbreaking.
44 Comments
Susan T.
I want to read all those animal books! And that is quite a face in the pine needles. Nice haiku, Marcie.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Susan! I’m thrilled there are so many companion books! Kids will love them.
jama
Thanks for spotlighting your book as well as other dormancy titles. That petrified face reminds me of “The Scream.” 🙂 Enjoyed your haiku. Thanks for hosting this week!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Terrifying face for such horrific cold that day. Thanks for stopping by!
Michelle Kogan
I’m intrigued by all the nature books here and look forard to reading them, including yours! Nice haiku, hope it doesn’t again get to petrifyingly cold, thanks for hosting Marcie!
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Thank you for hosting, Marcie! I love learning about the books you connect to yours, and teachers will too. You are wise to “write the book you (and many other grateful fourth grade teachers) need.” I adore your haiku and its face, and your “Haiku Moments” playlist is an absolute delight. (I am reading SPARE too!) xo, a.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Amy! I’m really fascinated by SPARE. Enjoying it much more than expected and being so heartbroken for him at the same time.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks, Michelle!
Mary Lee
Thanks for hosting us and for the fabulous text set to go with your book on dormancy!
PATRICIA J FRANZ
Another gorgeous haiku-photo, Marcie! I’m ordering the book now – and a bookplate 🙂
Thank you for hosting!
Laura Purdie Salas
Thanks for the shout out for SNACK, Marcie! What a fun text set. I’m in with an interview with Tanita Davis about her new novel — which has Poetry Friday in it! Thanks so much for hosting. Your haiku is startling!
Kay Jernigan McGriff
Thanks for hosting today and for sharing your book and the companions to go with it. I love your haiku and the photo that goes with it. What fun!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much!
Alan j Wright
Marcie, thank you for alerting me to this collection of books that focus on dormancy in nature. It is ever intriguing to explore. Thank you also for the haiku and your hosting role.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks for stopping by!
Laura Shovan
The is one scary walnut-shell face! Marcie, thanks for sharing these read-alikes for Wait, Rest, Pause. Since we have box turtles living wild in our yard, I have learned the term BRUMATE!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
oh yes! Brumate is in my book. So fascinating.
Rose Cappelli
Great text set, Marcie! And thanks for hosting. Love how you always find the most interesting photos and pair them with a wonderful haiku. Inspiring!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks, Rose. I take a lot of dud photos. 🙂 I braved such cold weather that day. Glad I found something in the pine needles.
Matt Forrest Esenwine
That’s quite the face! Cute haiku, Marcie – and some great poetry collections here! Thanks for sharing, and for hosting.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
So sorry for the confusion–these are nonfiction texts, not poetry collections. I should have clarified for Poetry Friday. Thank you for stopping by!
Linda Baie
Thanks for hosting, Marcie & sharing the special books related to yours & that amazing photo. It is fun to find faces in interesting places!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
“Faces in interesting places” would make a great book! I have a photo of one in a tree trunk too.
Carol Varsalona
Marcie, thank you for hosting PF today. I just read that you live very close to me-probably 30 minutes. We should meet up one day. I also did not know that you are a teacher. What joyous bio pieces I learned today. I think your 2019 book looks fabulous. Your photos are always stunning and I especially like the latest haiku. The face in the log is so intriguing. It is an owl who landed? Perhaps, it is a ghostly creature. I always loved the word petrified so this haiku not only is one that children will enjoy but adults like me. Keep those haiku of the week coming. They would make great trading cards in any classroom.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yep, we live close by each other. I’m in a neighboring county. Teacher for 17 years then teacher-librarian for the past 8 years.
Heidi Mordhorst
Marcie, I’m glad you’re finding ways to highlight your Fall 2019 book, which surely got a bit lost in the ensuing crisis. There’s nothing I love more than a good Set or Kit, and this is a lovely one. Photo and haiku are wonderful, and I have a thought… Thanks for hosting!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks, Heidi. Yes, I wanted to highlight these texts since 2 of them came out after my book (one very recently). I also get asked often “what other books do you recommend on dormancy?”
Karen Edmisten
What a wonderful round-up of books! Loved the haiku and that photo! Lol, it looks like a hedgehog gone horribly wrong. 🙂
Thank you for hosting this week!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
LOL, yes! Thank you for stopping by!
Mary E. Cronin
What a wonderful text set, Marcie. Thank you and happy Friday!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Mary!
April Halprin Wayland
Marcie ~ there is such generosity in sharing the spotlight with companion books! Thank you for sharing your energy and time, too, in hosting this week <3
~ April Halprin Wayland from the glog, TeachingAuthors.com
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, April! Happy to spotlight these books! Thanks for stopping by!
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Marcie, It is so wise to write the book that you – and other fourth grade teachers – needed…thank you for sharing the whole text set. Your face haiku brings a smile to my face, and the “Haiku Moments” playlist is a delight. Thank you for hosting today…I’m reading SPARE too! xo, a.
janice scully
What a great topic, dormancy, and the books you’ve recommended are all well done and so useful to share with other teachers and of course, parents. I have a weathered walnut half just like the one in your photo. It’s facinating how much it looks like a face,” Petrified from the cold.” Thanks for hosting!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
So interesting, right? My parents had so many pinecones in their yard–hundreds and hundreds. I was out looking for some interesting ones and found this instead.
Margaret Simon
Thanks for hosting today. I love how you’ve paired your book with other wonderful books. Your haiku and images are always inspiring.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Margaret!
Linda Mitchell
Thank you for hosting! I loved your webinar this week. How do you manage to do all that you are doing?! I love the books that compliment your book. I’m craving time to write about things I know are needed in school libraries. YOu are an inspiration!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Do it! Write what you KNOW we need! Thanks for coming to the webinar. There were several librarians that came. Hope it was helpful (though I suspect we told you all nothing new). How I get things done: I’m like a turtle–slow and steady. I am consistent to a fault. Day after day, week after week, the small bits add up. That’s how I do it. Small bits each day.
JAN GODOWN ANNINO
Hi Marcie – you are a whirlwind of ideas & energy on this Poetry Friday weekend when many of us likely want to give into DORMANCY! Thanks for highlighting the natural world’s need for a brather.
I’m hosting next week so please come & visit then.
My current post is still up from the other week so I won’t put it in the foto blocks.
I’m always at https://bookseedstudio.wordpress.com & jganninoauthor on instagram.
Happy non-dormancy weekend to you, host, with the most!
Jan/Bookseedstudio
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
I will definitely visit you next week! Thanks for coming! And yes, these short days always make me go into dormancy. However, the days are getting longer and it makes me so happy!
Robyn Hood Black
Thanks for hosting us all this week, Marcie! Your book looks/sounds fantastic, as do these others you’ve shared in the same vein. (My 84-year-old mother told me on the phone the other day, explaining that they were still in their PJs maybe and taking it easy that day, said they were ‘wintering’ – she’d heard the term somewhere that week & liked it! I like it too, though there’s not much ‘wintering’ or slowing down happening this year for us – but it’s something we should do more of as humans, I’m sure!) ;0)
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh yes, wintering! Maybe she or someone she knows has read the book WINTERING by Katherine May? It’s a good one!