Hi everyone,
Yesterday I had to make a list of my books of poetry for a form I was filling out. One thing I learned was that not counting anthologies I’ve published 36 books in the last 32 years. Fifteen titles were for education publishers so they were all done with one, often two educator partners who wrote much more of the content than I did. My job in every case was to write the poems. One group of five books required 80 or so poems, another single project took nearly the same number. Since I went to the trouble of making the list, you know what’s coming. I’m going to blog you with it. Here goes, and please forgive the unruly lines. WordPress does as WordPress does.
David L. Harrison books of original poetry - trade and education
36 titles in 32 years
1993 Somebody Catch My Homework
1994 The Boy Who Counted Stars
1996 A Thousand Cousins
1998 The Purchase of Small Secrets
1999 Wild Country
1999 Easy Poetry Lessons that Dazzle and Delight (with Bernice Cullinan)
2003 The Alligator in the Closet
2003 The Mouse Was Out at Recess
2003 Using the Power of Poetry (with Kathy Holderith)
2004 Connecting Dots, Poems of My Journey
2006 Sounds of Rain, Poems of the Rain Forest
2007 bugs, poems about creeping things
2008 Pirates
2009 Partner Poems for Building Fluency (with Tim Rasinski and Gay Fawcett)
2009 Vacation, We’re Going to the Ocean!
2011 Goose Lake
2012 Cowboys
2013 Learning through Poetry: Short Vowels (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2013 Learning through Poetry: Short Vowels (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2013 Learning through Poetry: Long Vowels (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2013 Learning through Poetry: Consonants (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2013 Learning through Poetry: Consonants and Blends (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2013 Learning through Poetry: Rimes (with Mary Jo Fresch)
2016 Social Studies Literacy; Grades 4-6 (with Timothy V. Rasinski)
2016 Now You See Them Now You Don’t
2018 A Place to Start a Family
2018 Crawly School for Bugs
2020 After Dark
2020 Guided Practice for Reading Growth, Grades 4-8, Texts and Lessons to Improve Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary (with Laura Robb)
2021 The Dirt Book
2021 Scope and Sequence Program for Fairfax County Virginia Public Schools System (with Tim Rasinski)
2022 Partner Poems & Word Ladders for Building Foundational Literacy Skills, Grades K-2 (with Tim Rasinski and Mary Jo Flesch)
2022 Partner Poems & Word Ladders for Building Foundational Literacy Skills, Grades 1-3 (with Tim Rasinski and Mary Jo Flesch); Scholastic
2024 A Tree is a Community
2024 Wild Brunch
2024 The Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap (with Tim Rasinski and Lynne Kulick)
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