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Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape is a poetic journey along Louisiana's Bayou Teche. Through poetry and art, explore the plants and animals that live along and in the bayou. Teachers will find ideas and prompts for teaching students about the habitat of Louisiana wetlands through poetry and creative writing. Invitations to write and draw make this book an interactive journal for those of all ages who wish to admire and be inspired by South Louisiana's landscape.

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Margaret's poems drip with the sights, sounds, and textures of the bayou! Full of wonderful word choices and unexpected images, her poems are fun to read and easy to understand. The writing and drawing prompts that follow each poem invite exploration and creativity with a variety of forms and prompts that allow writers of all levels to find success with poetry and art. This book is an amazing resource for teachers in the bayou or anyone who'd like to go on a mental bayou field trip! -- Laura Purdie Salas Author of more than 125 books for kids, including Meet My Family!, If You Were the Moon, Water Can Be] ], and BookSpeak! Any child who has this book has a source book, field guide, workbook, nature guide, and a wonderful set of poems that teach everything a beginning poet needs to know to write a first poem, and a second one, and a third one, and on and on. I love this book! -- Darrell Bourque Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2007-2011 A love-song to the Bayou Teche, this inviting book creates its own universe. I suspect there are multiple paths for us to enter that universe, but I am drawn in immediately by Anna Cantrell's luminous watercolor illustrations, a gift to us from her precise observation and quiet love for her subjects. And then Henry Cancienne's photographs add another layer of beauty and understanding. Then I come to brief paragraphs of information, enough to arouse curiosity but press me with too many facts. Then what a treasure box this little book is! Margaret Simon's poems, each one born of minute observation and winsome appreciation of this Bayou universe. And nestled into all of this are Simon's suggestions for writing a poem of our own in the manner of the one we've just read, and a little space right there to do so. Experienced teacher, she suggests with a light touch and offers inviting tricks to make our writing easy. This is a generous, generative book that gives and gives and does not make demands. My fingers were itching to hold a pencil, a canoe paddle, a watercolor set, a camera. I leave its universe a little sad to go, but refreshed in my love of the Louisiana bayous and with my own creativity restored. -- Ava Leavell Haymon, author of Eldest Daughter: Poems Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2013-2015

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