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Way to Go!: Sports Poems
In forty-two lively and often inspiring poems, Lillian Morrison applauds the players and enthusiasts who strive for excellence in athletics. In a spare yet powerful style, this award-winning poet conveys the athletes' high moments and the difficulties they overcome. Skiers and skaters, sailors and surfers, sprinters and snowboarders--beginners or pros--all are celebrated here. These poems also pay tribute to sports rarely written about, such as in-line skating and bicycle.
40 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Lillian Morrison
26 books7 followersLillian Morrison's interest in poetry resulting from playing rhyming games with her friends such as jump rope and patty cake. As an adult, she wanted to make poetry fun and accessible for children. In her quest to become a writer, she earned one of her bachelor's degrees at Rutgers University in New Jersey and then another at Columbia University in New York.
She worked for many years at the New York Public Library in young adult services and was recognized as the recipient of the American Library Association's Grolier Award in 1987 for her contributions to stimulating the interests of young people through reading. She was particularly interested in folk rhymes, outdoor sports, dance, jazz and film, saying, "I love rhythms, the body movement implicit in poetry, explicit in sports--I am drawn to athletes, dancers, drummers, jazz musicians, who transcend misery and frustration and symbolize for us something joyous, ordered, and possible in life."
She spent nearly fifty years working at the New York Public Library and, during this time, also served as a lecturer at the schools where she developed her education, Rutgers and Columbia Universities.
She worked for many years at the New York Public Library in young adult services and was recognized as the recipient of the American Library Association's Grolier Award in 1987 for her contributions to stimulating the interests of young people through reading. She was particularly interested in folk rhymes, outdoor sports, dance, jazz and film, saying, "I love rhythms, the body movement implicit in poetry, explicit in sports--I am drawn to athletes, dancers, drummers, jazz musicians, who transcend misery and frustration and symbolize for us something joyous, ordered, and possible in life."
She spent nearly fifty years working at the New York Public Library and, during this time, also served as a lecturer at the schools where she developed her education, Rutgers and Columbia Universities.
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February 26, 2015
Personal Reaction: This book has many poems and all of them are sports related. To read them all in one sitting is not ideal, but the poems varied in topic and length to keep things somewhat interesting.
In a unit on poetry, this would be a great book to show children reluctant to write their own poems. It could be an example that poems can be about anything. The poems could be read out loud to the class, but they should be read over the course of several days or weeks so that children don't sit through pages and pages of sports poems in one sitting. Sports enthusiasts will probably enjoy looking through this book of poems. It would work best in older classrooms of children that have had more exposure to sports and athletic events.
In a unit on poetry, this would be a great book to show children reluctant to write their own poems. It could be an example that poems can be about anything. The poems could be read out loud to the class, but they should be read over the course of several days or weeks so that children don't sit through pages and pages of sports poems in one sitting. Sports enthusiasts will probably enjoy looking through this book of poems. It would work best in older classrooms of children that have had more exposure to sports and athletic events.
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