Jabberwalking

Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate in the USA, is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them -- to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move. And there's no stopping once you're a Jabberwalker, writing fast, fast, fast, scribble-poem-burbles-on-the-run. Scribble what you see Scribble what you hear It's all out there -- v monos

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/13/2018
ISBN: 9781536201406
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.90h x 9.40w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/01/2018
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2018
Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 42
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2018
School Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 155
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2018 pg. 145
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average