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How to possibly Publish a poem?

A few years back, I wrote a lengthy detailed rhyming poem about baseball (and playing baseball when I was younger). I still have it, and I think it would make a decent children’s book, as it would only be about 20 pages (including illustrations). A child who is a baseball fan might like it.

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My Very Own Pirate Tale Storybook $29.95 In My Very Own® Pirate Tale, entertaining sea creatures bring letters one by one to spell out your child’s name, and they describe why he or she is the perfect candidate to be the captain’s first mate. The sawshark brings the S, the octopus brings the O, and so on. At the end of this adventurous pirate story, your child’s name is revealed as the secret to opening the treasure. Includes an illustrated encyclopedia of 62 sea creatures with fun facts about each. Filled with beautiful, hand-painted illustrations, this hardcover book is a unique keepsake that will be cherished for a lifetime.

My Very Own Pirate Tale and Personalized Bandana Gift Set $39.95 This swashbucklin’ gift set includes the My Very Own® Pirate Tale personalized storybook and a personalized pirate bandana embroidered with the words ‘Cap’n [Your Child's First Name.]‘ Boys and girls love the pirate bandana that lets them live out their very own pirate adventure! In My Very Own Pirate Tale, entertaining sea creatures bring letters to spell out the name of the child whom they’ve chosen as the perfect first mate for the pirate ship. The sawshark brings the S, the octopus brings the O, and so on. At the end, your child’s name is revealed as the secret to opening the treasure. Includes a dedication from you and an illustrated encyclopedia of 62 sea creatures with fun facts about each. Filled with beautiful, hand-painted illustrations, this hardcover book is a unique keepsake that will be cherished for a lifetime.

God Loves You! Personalized Book $24.95 The God Loves You! personalized children’s book tells your child just how much God loves them… and that they are God’s special creations! It comes personalized with a child’s name on the cover and throughout the text. God Loves You! features beautiful poetry by award-winning children’s author Jennifer Dewing and colorful, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Maria Carluccio. The book is perfect for the birth of a baby, baptism, naming ceremony, first communion, Easter, Passover or everyday occasion. It makes a perfect gift for children of the Christian, Jewish or Muslim faith.

Who Loves Me? Personalized Book $24.95 It is often said that there is no better gift that you can give a child than love. Who Loves Me? features the names of family members and friends who love the child, and encourages the child to reach to the sky when asked ‘how much’ each of one of them loves him or her. This beautifully illustrated book reassures the child that he or she is loved ‘so much’ by each person, with melodious rhymes describing the depth of each individual’s love. Written by Jennifer Dewing, with colorful, whimsical illustrations by Maria Carluccio, this 8.5 inch x 8.5 inch hardcover book has 20 tear-free pages that are made for babies and young children to read every day!

The Super, Incredible Big Sister $29.95 The perfect gift for a new big sister! The Super, Incredible Big Sister book from I See Me! comes personalized with big sister’s name and the name of the new baby. The book reassures big sister that she is loved and appreciated… and it rewards her for helping out and being a ‘super star’ with her new sibling. It comes with a coordinating Super Incredible Big Sister award medal with a place on the back of the medal to write the proud sister’s first name! Written by award-winning children’s author Jennifer Dewing and Illustrated by award-winning artist Jill McDonald, this hardcover book is an adorable, whimsical and fun-filled personalized story.

A Coach’s Letter to His Son $1.55 Baseball is a game steeped in tradition, played from backyards to major league stadiums, and cheered by millions of fans. But at its most intimate and fundamental level, baseball is a game grounded in fathers and sons: in playing catch in the twilight hours after supper, in sons standing before old fences swinging at their father’s pitches. Creative Editions is proud to present A Coach’s Letter to His Son, a nostalgic tribute to the game. The words of Mel Allen and sketches and photo-realistic paintings by John Thompson combine to convey a coach’s story and regrets to his son, a baseball player not yet in his teens. Reflecting on his own baseball childhood, the importance of family, and the high-pressure atmosphere that surrounds youth sports at even the earliest levels of competition today, the narrator comes to reassess his priorities and rediscover the purity of baseball. In an age when “America’s pastime” is increasingly defined by statistics, awards, and championships, A Coach’s Letter to His Son is a powerful and touching reminder of the heart of the game. Mel Allen has worked as an editor for Yankee Magazine for more than two decades and has taught writing at the University of Massachusetts since 2001. A lifelong fan of baseball, he still makes time to pitch balls to his son Daniel, now a college player. A Coach’s Letter to His Son is his first picture book. He has two sons and lives in New Hampshire. John Thompson played baseball in college before turning his focus to art. He has since worked as an illustrator for a diverse array of clients, including NASA, the US Air Force, and Sports Illustrated. He has alsoillustrated a number of acclaimed children’s books, including Freedom Like Sunlight. He lives in New York and is a professor of art at Syracuse University.

Animal Doodles $15.99 With concealed spirals, the sturdy lie-flat doodle books in this series are perfect for endless creative drawing, writing, and coloring. No drawing skills are required, just plenty of imagination and something to draw with. Lots of doodling fun is packed into each book, designed to keep bored children busy for hours! Young artists who love their pets or simply love reading about animals will adore this collection of prompts for beastly doodles—from drawing the legs on a centipede to creating hiding spots for lion cubs Perfect for kids who are wild about animals, this book asks young artists to draw the winner of the Prettiest Pooch Competition, fill the jungle treetops with tropical birds, create a monster of the deep, draw crazy patterns on the zebras, and more. From filling in hiding spots for lion cubs to play in hide and seek to sketching the dreams of all sorts sleeping creatures, there’s plenty of fun to be had.

Battle Cry at Batoche $9.5 Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle, who quickly becomes his friend after a hair-raising rescue.Ben eventually discovers that a confrontation between the North-West Mounted Police and the Natives, led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, is imminent. As events unfold, Ben and Red Eagle witness the struggles of the Metis and Cree for recognition and the failed efforts to negotiate a settlement that ultimately lead to tragedy and war. Caught between his loyalty to Red Eagle and the authority of a Hudson’s Bay Company uncle he has never trusted, Ben must decide where his allegiance lies. But as he soon learns, when it comes to friendship, there is no taking sides.B.J. Bayle’s first children’s novel, Mystery at Meander Lake, made Canadian Living’s Recommended Reading List. Her second book, Trail of Fire, was shortlisted for the Alberta Writing for Children Competition. Perilous Passage, her novel about explorer David Thompson, is also available from Dundurn. She lives in Cochrane, Alberta, near Calgary.

Miracles Of The Antichrist, The $17.99 The Miracles of Antichrist relies heavily on the legends and folk tales of Sicily. The descriptions, rich in the warm colors of the South, convey Lagerlöf’s understanding of the hot blooded Sicilians with the same insight and sympathy which she evokes while describing the introspective Swedes. Lagerlöf borrows from an ancient Sicilian legend which says, “When Antichrist comes he shall seem as Christ. There shall be great want, and Antichrist shall go from land to land and give bread to the poor. And he shall find many followers.” Masterfully, she intertwines a tale of modern Sicily in an era when revolutionary socialism is sweeping the island and making heavy inroads upon the influence of the church. Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlööf (1858-1940) was born in Sweden. She had been writing poetry ever since she was a child, but she did not publish anything until 1890, when a Swedish newspaper gave her the first prize in a literary competition and published excerpts from her first novel, Gösta Berlings Saga (published in 1891 and very successful). During her travels to Italy she wrote The Miracles of Antichrist in 1897. After several minor works she published Jerusalem (translated in English as The Holy City) but it was with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, a book for children, that she became recognized worldwide. In 1909.she became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages.

Musicians From Maine $23.6 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ellis Paul, Howie Day, James R. Flynn, Ray Lamontagne, Patty Griffin, Lenny Breau, Clarence White, Bill Chinnock, Joan Wasser, Johnny Williams, John Etnier, Micah Smaldone, Stephen Hague, Slaid Cleaves, Spencer Albee, Mark Erelli, Mellie Dunham, Patrick Aaron Hodgkins, Bill Flagg, John Knowles Paine, David Mallett, John Benson Brooks, James Robinson, Nesey Gallons, Bob Page, Carol Noonan, Luther Orlando Emerson, Tom Rowe. Excerpt: Ellis Paul (born January 14, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born Paul Plissey in Aroostook County, Maine, Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s. His pop music songs have appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Having grown up in a small town in Maine, Paul attended Boston College on a track scholarship where he majored in English. An athletic injury sustained during his junior year changed the course of his professional career. Paul picked up a guitar to pass the time while sidelined, and discovered that playing guitar and writing songs was the creative outlet he had been looking for. After graduating from college he began playing at open mic nights in the Boston area while working with inner-city school children. Paul’s growing popularity at Boston coffeehouses, coupled with winning a Boston Acoustic Underground songwriter competition and national exposure on a Windham Hill Records compilation combined to give him the confidence to resign his day-job and pursue a career as a professional musician. To date, Paul has released 16 al… More:

Perilous Passage $1.99 After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia. The sea captain who finds the teenager gives him the only name he knows, while others derisively dub him Peter No-Name. Eventually, Peter finds employment in a Montreal tavern where he meets a French voyageur called Boulard who changes his life irrevocably.Boulard works for fur trader David Thompson, soon to become one of the world’s most famous explorers and mapmakers. Thompson is impressed with the teenager and enlists him in his obsessive quest to establish an overland "northwest" passage to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River.With Thompson, Peter embarks on an amazing series of adventures that brings him face to face with hostile Natives and exposes him to the hardships and life-threatening challenges of formidable mountains and primeval forests as the intrepid outdoorsmen canoe, ride, and sled across a continent still largely untouched by European civilization.B.J. Bayle’s first children’s novel, Mystery at Meander Lake, made Canadian Living’s Recommended Reading List. Her second book, Trail of Fire, was shortlisted for the Alberta Writing for Children Competition. Battle Cry at Batoche, her bestselling novel about the 1885 North-West Rebellion, is also available from Dundurn. She lives in Cochrane, Alberta.

Selected Works $14.95 olivia free-woman was a talented and prolific writer. These Selected Works include poetry ranging from intensely sensual through political to Dr. Seuss type rhymes for children. Her short stories evoke laughs, tears, and wonder, often ending with a surprising O’Henry style twist. Her award winning play, An Interruption, ties together the lives of two women from very different times. The other two plays speak to current topics – the struggle for recognition of gay relationships and family acceptance. —Dianne PostFree-woman tells her stories with power, clarity and a marvelous imagination. An amazing collection of stories and poems whose characters will touch your heart and live in your memory. —Paula Waybrightolivia free-woman loved to startle, shock, and challenge readers. Her quirky characters and attention to detail bring to mind comparison to E. Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News (Pulitzer Prize), Accordion Crimes, and the short story made into the hit movie, Brokeback Mountain. free-woman’s stories and poems are as playful and profound as the life she lived. —Judy WhitehouseProceeds from the sale of this book will go to the olivia free-woman Educational Scholarship fund to assist students from Creighton Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona in pursuit of higher education.olivia free-woman has been writing since she fell in love with her first spiral-bound journal in high school. Her work includes plays, poetry, articles, and short stories for children and adults. Her first play, An Interruption, was selected as the first place winner in a competition sponsored by Arizona State University Women and the American Association of University Women and produced in Tempe. She has been published by the ASU College of Education, in the women’s news journal off our backs, and in several local publications including WICCE and Dimensions. An educator for thirty-one years, olivia was an “out” teacher at a central city

Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools $17.57 With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. In this first comprehensive history of these institutions, J.R. Miller explores the motives of all three agents in the story. He looks at the separate experiences and agendas of the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them.Starting with the foundations of residential schooling in seventeenth-century New France, Miller traces the modern version of the institution that was created in the 1880s, and, finally, describes the phasing-out of the schools in the 1960s. He looks at instruction, work and recreation, care and abuse, and the growing resistance to the system on the part of students and their families. Based on extensive interviews as well as archival research, Miller’s history is particularly rich in Native accounts of the school system.This book is an absolute first in its comprehensive treatment of this subject. J.R. Miller has written a new chapter in the history of relations between indigenous and immigrant peoples in Canada.Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction.Winner of the 1996 John Wesley Dafoe Foundation competition for Distinguished Writing by CanadiansNamed an ‘Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America’ by the Gustavus Myer Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.

Soul-Fire $11.99 In 2005 a group of popular authors in children’s and adult fiction and leading figures in the world of literacy joined together with Wealden House in East Grinstead to promote a Young People’s Writing Festival and Competition. A series of author book signings, writing workshops and reading nights culminated in award ceremonies where everyone who entered was acknowledged or won a prize. This book was formed as the result of the fascinating entries received and is a collection of short stories for children, by children. This collection of stories was edited by Elizabeth Arnold.

Stories I’d Tell My Children (But Maybe Not Until They’re Adults) $4.99 “Stories I’d Tell My Children (but maybe not until they’re adults)” is mostly hysterically funny, sometimes poignant and profound, often bawdy and always delightful.__ The book includes more than 100 stories that span 55 years: pre-school, in school, and after the author had enough school. There’s lots of sex, drugs and rock & roll, and even the sex and drug stories are funny.__ Some stories were written about bad teachers, evil bosses and weird relatives. There are stories about women the author considered marrying, and the woman he did marry. Readers will even learn what his wife had to do in bed to defeat the competition.__ Although Michael N. Marcus is a first-year baby-boomer who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, one previewer said, “This book provides a hilarious look at life for people of all ages who want to roll on the floor, laughing until the tears come.” Another previewer said, “This book is so funny that I nearly peed in my pants. My girlfriend didn’t think it was funny, so I got a new girlfriend.”__ In addition to laughter, the book provides an education. One chapter can help women understand the male fascination with farts and breasts. Another explains how Betty Friedan and Anthony Quinn made 1965 much sexier than 1964.__ Other chapters explain the difference between New York and Connecticut mommies, how baseball can be child abuse, how oral sex can be dangerous, how a platinum American Express card is just as good as a Medicaid card, the meaning of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the disgusting secret ingredients in the world’s greatest coleslaw, how a free dog can cost $100,000, and how the author conducted a test to determine if he attracted crazy women or drove women crazy.__ There are four murders in the book. If Marcus gets killed for writing this, there will be five murders in the sequel — but someone else will write it.