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With playful prose and vivid art, Things to Do brings to life the small moments and secret joys of a child's day. There are wonders everywhere. In the sky and on the ground - blooming in a flower bed, dangling from a silken thread, buzzing through the summer air - waiting ...waiting to be found. In this thoughtful and ingenious collection of poems, Elaine Magliaro, an elementary school teacher for more than three decades and a school librarian for three years, and illustrator Catia Chien provide a luminous glimpse of the ordinary wonders all around us.



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Elaine Magliaro

Things to Do, Elaine's debut children's book, won a 2018 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Award and the 2018 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature for the best picture book manuscript of 2017. Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies--including World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art; One Minute till Bedtime; Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems; and A Rocketful of Space Poems. Elaine worked as an elementary school teacher for more than three decades and as a school librarian for three years. She also taught a children's literature course at Boston University from 2002-2008. She served on the advisory board of the Keene State College Children's Literature Festival from 2006-2008 and as a member of the NCTE Poetry Committee from 2009-2012. She is now retired and writes poetry for children.



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