Unusual Poems for Unusual Kids and the Unusual Adults They Become - Collins, Lowery Christopher
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This collection of poems is the first complete group of children's poetry written by teacher, director, and playwright Lowery Christopher Collins. It contains a wide variety of odd topics, all written in tight rhyming schemes. Perfect for children as young as eight, and even more perfect for older children and adults, these poems work on the level of simple stories and themes while also addressing much deeper social topics. This book contains poems about flamingos, mimes, parakeets, mermaids, braces, England, and people who smell like goats. And that's just the surface. If you or children you…mehr

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This collection of poems is the first complete group of children's poetry written by teacher, director, and playwright Lowery Christopher Collins. It contains a wide variety of odd topics, all written in tight rhyming schemes. Perfect for children as young as eight, and even more perfect for older children and adults, these poems work on the level of simple stories and themes while also addressing much deeper social topics. This book contains poems about flamingos, mimes, parakeets, mermaids, braces, England, and people who smell like goats. And that's just the surface. If you or children you care about would like read some fun, strange, rhythmic poetry, this book's for you!
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Lowery Christopher Collins (Chris) has been a teacher for nearly thirty years. He has taught at high school, middle school, elementary school and as an English and literature instructor at the college and university level. For the last several years, he has been a high school theatre director and a gifted education consultant. He's been honored with several teaching awards including the Young Audiences of Northeast Texas Outstanding Service to the Profession Award and the Kennedy Center's Steven Sondheim Award for being one of the most "Inspirational Teachers" in the U.S. He is also an award-winning playwright of over twenty-five scripts, a weekly newspaper columnist, a short story writer, a poet, a pianist, a vocalist, a songwriter, a Recording Artist with Daywind Studios, the founder and artistic director of Stagelands Theatre Company, an aspiring novelist, and a (former) choir director. He teaches classes from rhetoric and composition to literature to acting to the Bible. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in English and History and a Master's Degree in English from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and has served on fine arts and gifted education committees as well as on a board of governors for a small playhouse. In addition to his interests in teaching, directing, and writing, he has a fondness for lighthouses, windmills, filmmaking, salsa, sculpture, Flannery O'Connor, travel, dominos, guacamole, social media, genetics, Maine, landscaping, pillows, gospel music, Shakespeare, marbles, YouTube, quantum physics, movies, weird jokes, maps, trees, cold rooms, and Texas. He can be reached at mrchriscollins@hotmail.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tofferdreams, and on Twitter at "tofferdreams."