Jennifer Thomas
@JThomasABC
Word fan having a blast writing #poetry, mostly for kids. Medical editor. Poems in @TheDirigible, @tygertygermag, @PaddlerPress, @LTPmag, @TheToyPress.
After many of you lovely people told me how you say “garage” in a poll, I concluded that it has too many pronunciations to work in a rhyming poem. Which meant, of course, that I had to try.
Loved this brilliant collection of children’s poems & fascinating facts by @Schaubwrites, with beautiful illustrations by Anne Lambelet. It took me back to past road trips seeing redwoods & ancient bristlecone pines. It’s a book that will surely inspire young readers! #kidlit
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to @PoetryFound for letting me try to restore this healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17056…
Word that’s making me smile today: apanthropy. It’s the love of solitude.
A summer poem for bright days and looooooong nights by Robert Louis Stevenson. What's your favourite summer poem to while away the sleepless hours? 🌇
🎄✨ Christmas Cover Reveal! ✨🎄 Celebrate #ChristmasInJuly with @AttieLime & Nadine Licence! A Welly Full of Christmas is a joyful, festive poetry collection for young readers, out Oct 30th. Pre-order here 👉 amzn.to/4f64NLj #CoverReveal
Word that’s making me smile today: bang-a-bonk. It’s an old dialect term for reclining languorously on a riverbank, letting the world chug past without you.
This gem by @jodeshoughton in @tygertygermag is a reminder that children's poetry isn't just for children. Facing a daunting task? This poem is for you.
Meet our #poemsforchildren - ‘Big Things Start Small’ by @jodeshoughton is a musical and hypnotic hymn to the tiny beginning of every big thing, from a castle to a belch to an oak tree! Read it all at: tygertyger.net/big-things-sta… 🧡 #kidlit #readingforpleasure #poetry #poetryforkids
#WordOfTheWeek @TheToyPress 🪶🪶🪶🐚🐚🐚
Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writingforchildren #poetryforchildren #writingprompt #Poetryforkids #Kidlit
Expression that’s making me smile today: I would borrow even a cat’s paw! In Japan, it’s how you’d say that you’re so busy you’d take any help you could get.
Ten days until the 4th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the Dirigible Balloon. I think we should do something to celebrate. #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon Here's a post from July 28th 2021 as lift-off approached >>> northernjim.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/lif…
Word that’s making me smile today: wilding. It’s an old term for a flower or fruit growing in the wild, either a native plant or a cultivated one that has escaped.
Lily pads floating in a quiet, suminagashi pond 🌀🎨 A joyful little lime green & blue over-marbled pattern for Marbled Monday 💚💙 #crafts #handmade #marbling
Calling 5-13 y/o kids! 📢 Lit Kids Magazine needs YOU to submit work for our 7th Issue: Fire! 🔥 Please send us your writing, art, and photos by July 31st for consideration, and keep shining! ✨ litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-magaz… #parents #teachers #librarians #kidlit #emag #submissions
On #WorldBrainDay is this the perfect book to read? Find out about its author, Sarah Ziman, and read some of her work plus my review of her book here - brian-moses.blogspot.com/2020/01/guest-… @BardyMum @TroikaBooks
Word that’s making me smile today: ocean. It comes from a Greek word, ōkeanos, that means "the great stream encircling the earth’s disc.”
We are open for submissions for 2 more weeks! Send us your #poemsforchildren on the theme ‘Surprise’ by 31 July - we are looking forward to being amazed, amused& refreshed! 🧡 tygertyger.net/submissions/ #poetrycommunity #poets #writers #writerscommunity #kidlit #readingforpleasure
Poems about the Sea and seaside by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-mini… @jamescarterpoet @Lizpoet @SueHardyDawson @Janenewberry55 @RumbleCoral @nealzetterpoet @Katypoet @joshuaseigal
Word that’s making me smile today: thunderbuster (and its crashing cousins thundergush and thunderboomer). They’re all terms for wild thunderstorms that’ll soak you to the skin in seconds.