Day Three - Memory Haiku - Shells and a book

Poem

cone shells

ocean-washed collection

Mexican spring

 Linda Baie © All Rights Reserved

          Last month, I read a blog post where the writer highly recommended  

an older book titled I Am The Ocean, by Susanna Marshak and illustrated by James Endicott. It is a lovely example of a mask or persona poem, where the subject of the poem is the speaker. The entire book tells the story of the ocean, in its words, and in the illustrations alive and gorgeously colored, fish and sand and sky and birds, all the ocean. 

         When I can't find a book from one of my Indie stores, I go to a site called BetterWorldBooks.com, a site which has thousands of titles that they profit from selling in addition to funding literacy initiatives all over the world. They had this book, and I received it a few days ago.  While reading it, I connected to time when I traveled to the Sea of Cortez with my students, and we spent a day on a remote island, learning about the habitat, and collecting cone shells, of which there were thousands. It was an experience I won't forget.

                 In the Progressive Poem (on the right), Donna's link is correctly here!