The Winner This Week is...

Mary Lee Hahn of A Year of Reading is the lucky winner of Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses, which was written by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Simon Bartram. If you haven’t read this poetry book yet, Mary Lee, you’re in for a treat—and lots of chuckles!

Here is the schedule for the upcoming drawings at Wild Rose Reader and Political Verses.

May 1st—for comments left on posts dated April 26-30

The winner of the drawing that will take place on May 1st will receive a copy of The Best of Ogden Nash.

Find out who won copies of Birds on a Wire and What Can you Do with an Old Red Shoe? over at Wild Rose Reader.

This Week's Winner Is...

Mary Lee Hahn of A Year of Reading is the lucky winner of American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse edited by John Hollander. I have little doubt that Mary Lee will enjoy this compilation of works by Arthur Guiterman, Robert Frost, Don Marquis, Morris Bishop, Ogden Nash, E. B. White, Phyllis McGinley, W. H. Auden, David McCord, Dorothy Parker, and poets.

Here is the schedule for the upcoming drawings at Wild Rose Reader and Political Verses.

• April 26th—for comments left on posts dated April 19-25
• May 1st—for comments left on posts dated April 26-30
  

The winner of the drawing that takes place on April 26th will receive a copy of Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verse, which was written by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Simon Bartram. This is a book of poems and pictures sure to tickle the funny bones of children and adults alike.

Find out who won a copy of Joyce Sidman's Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors over at Wild Rose Reader.

The World's Greatest: A Poetry Prize

Here’s the scoop for those of you who would like to know what book of light verse I’ll be giving away as a prize for the second week of National Poetry Month at Political Verses. This is the book!

The World’s Greatest: Poems
Written by J.Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by Keith Graves
Chronicle Books, 2008

Here’s an excerpt from my Wild Rose Reader review of the book:

This collection of “record-breaking” poetry is fun to read. A master of light verse, J. Patrick Lewis proves himself adept at taking factual information and writing about it with wry humor and the clever turn of phrase. These “greatest” poems are written in a variety of forms, including limerick, acrostic, and concrete poetry. Although not of historic importance, the subjects Lewis selected to write about in his rhythmic and rhyming (with one exception) poems would most likely be of interest to young readers...and listeners.

Here’s a link to my review of this topnotch book of poetry for kids—and for anyone else who enjoys reading light verse written by a master of the genre: The World's Greatest: Poems--A Book Review.

My review includes two of the clever verses included in Lewis’s book—The Longest Traffic Jam and The Largest Mantle of Bees.

NOTE: All you have to do to be eligible for next Sunday’s drawing is to leave a comment at one of my Political Verses posts dated April 5-11!

ANOTHER NOTE: Read the following post to find out what children’s poetry book I’ll be giving away at Wild Rose Reader as a prize for the second week of National Poetry Month: A Prehistoric Poetry Prize!

And the Winners Are...

Mary Lee of A Year of Reading is the lucky winner of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme—and Tricia of The Miss Rumphius Effect is the lucky winner of J. Patrick Lewis’s The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse.

Remember, all you have to do to be eligible for a poetry book prize from Wild Rose Reader or Political Verses is to leave a comment at one of my posts at either blog.

Here is the schedule for the upcoming drawings at Wild Rose Reader and Political Verses.

• April 12th—for comments left on posts dated April 5-11
• April 19th—for comments left on posts dated April 12-18
• April 26th—for comments left on posts dated April 19-25
• May 1st—for comments left on posts dated April 26-30
  

I have announced the winner of Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems edited by Georgia Heard over at Wild Rose Reader in this post: And the Winner Is…

NOTE to Mary Lee & Tricia: Please email me your addresses.

Political Verses: National Poetry Month Prizes

In celebration of National Poetry Month, I’ll be giving away books of light verse as prizes for people who leave comments at my posts during the month of April.

Here are the books you’ll have a chance of winning:

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse
(American Poets Project)

The Best of Ogden Nash
Edited by Linell Nash Smith

The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse
Written by J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by Serge Bloch

Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verse
Written by J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by Simon Bartram

The World’s Greatest: Poems
Written by J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by Keith Graves

You can read my review of the book in this Wild Rose Reader post: The World's Greatest: Poems--A Book Review

NOTE: If you comment/have commented at any of my March posts at Political Verses you could win the following book :

Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Written by Calvin Trillin

You can read my Wild Rose Reader post about this book here.