A GREAT NEPHEW AND A GREAT AUNT: LANDON AND PENNY

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Jone at Check It Out is hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup today. If you’d like to know more about Poetry Friday, click HERE for an explanation by Renee LaTulippe.

Ants may rule the hill, but they don’t rule here! Art by Landon

Hello, Great Readers of our series! Just In case you haven’t visited before, let me tell you a little about A Great Nephew and A Great Aunt. My great nephew, Landon (a seventh-grader) and I (his great aunt) collaborate. I write a poem which he illustrates. We started this collaboration in the fall of 2014 and have had so much fun with it that we decided to invite others along. Landon and I will continue to have a new episode on the second Friday of each month. The other Fridays are filling up quickly with guests. I have created a page on my website to view all the episodes of A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt. Click HERE to visit the page and enjoy past episodes.

With today’s collaboration, Landon and I are wishing you a belated Happy Valentine’s Day or maybe an early Happy Halloween. If that seems confusing, I think you’ll get it once you read the poem and see the illustration. (And just so you know…Landon did not hide an object in today’s art.)

Penny’s Poemslide1
Landon’s Art

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art by Landon

Thanks so much for joining us today. I appreciate all of you who read this series. See you next week when I’ll have guest collaborators.


24 thoughts on “A GREAT NEPHEW AND A GREAT AUNT: LANDON AND PENNY

  1. Sometimes it’s a scene that I’ve loved, but this is a full and wonderful story, Penny, with another terrific illustration by Landon. I hope it will turn into a fun Halloween and/or Valentine’s Day picture book.

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  2. This collaboration is one of my favorites. This poem is adorable and witty and Landon of course pulled off his magic too. He came up with the idea and completed the picture all within an hour and a half. Not fair right?!

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