Joyce Sidman

A collection of poems that celebrate the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.

A Caldecott medalist and a Newbery Honor-winning poet celebrate the beauty and value of spirals. With simplicity and grace, Krommes and Sidman reveal the many spirals in nature--from fiddleheads to elephant tusks. Full color.

A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.

When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back. In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz"s class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven;...

"With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins,...