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Perry Nodelman

@ndlmn.bsky.social

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Retired professor of English lit, children’s lit critic and author, and art gallery docent and guide. My current project is a study of how children’s picture books depict museum art and visits to art museums. I also collect weird salt and pepper shakers.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Nov 21

The fallen idol, according to a birthday card produced by my eldest son many, many decades ago, when we were both much younger and I had lots more hair.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Nov 15

A Tyger in the Store
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A Tyger in the Store

Writing Poetry as a Goal

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Oct 24

Showing the Meaning or Truth of Something
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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Oct 13

Imaginary Gardens with Illustrated Toads in Them
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Imaginary Gardens with Illustrated Toads in Them

And now for something completely different: having said as much as I can think of saying right now about the Ambleside Online approach to poetry, I’m going to turn my attention to a different topic: i...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Oct 2

Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

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Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

Years 5 and Up

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Oct 2

Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

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Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

Years 5 and Up

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oh, Wait, It Wasn't the Complete Works After All: More Works to Add to the Works

Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jul 30

Emily Dickinson Writes Children’s Poetry open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

A Fly Sends a Letter to a Bee

Adult Poems in The Works

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Ambleside and the Works
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The Ambleside and The Works

While I first encountered The Ambleside Book of Verse as a young student in Canada, it was published in London in the UK.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Playground Goes to School
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The Playground Goes to School

A Closer Look at The Works

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jun 5

Experiencing poetry with my children. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/more-on-le...

More on Learning about Poetry

After my childhood experience of poetry and after my time as an undergrad English major studying it and then as a teacher of literature teaching it came my years as a parent sharing literature with my...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jun 4

My childhood in poetry.https://open.substack.com/pub/perrynodelman/p/learning-about-poetry?r=2hbznk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 26

The ghost of poetry. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

The Ghost of Poetry

Why is so little poetry for children being published? In the light of the relative scarcity of poetry, that questions might better be replaced by its opposite: why is poetry for children being publish...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 18

What is a treasury? A new post about children and poetry. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

What is a treasury?

As many of their titles reveal, then, editors of anthologies of poetry—and especially anthologies of poetry for children—like to identify what they are offering as “treasuries. ” Now I’d like to explo...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 10

Yet more about The Echoing Green on my Children and Poetry Substack: Cecil Day-Lewis and William Blake
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Why the Echoing Green?

It now occurs to me, a day after publishing it, that my post on The Echoing Green, C Day-Lewis’ three volume anthology of poetry for children, didn't account for its title. If you’re familiar with poe...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 9

A new post on my Children and Poetry
Substack. This one is about one particular anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

The Echoing Green

Edited By Cecil Day-Lewis

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 9

A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack, this time about one specific anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

The Echoing Green

Edited By Cecil Day-Lewis

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 8

A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

What I’m Planning to Do

I began working on this project some months ago by gathering poetry anthologies--mostly collections identified as being for children, but also some identified as being intended for families, and a var...

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · May 4

I’m beginning a Substack exploring what poetry for children is. You can subscribe here. It’s free! Please pass the link on to anyone else who might be interested, and please feel to agree or disagree in the comments section of the Substack page. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

Children and Poetry | Perry Nodelman | Substack

An exploration of what children are, what poetry is, and what children's poetry might be. Click to read Children and Poetry, by Perry Nodelman, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Apr 26

Some ugly truths. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

College Is an Education in Bullshit

The value of universities is in revealing how they themselves suck.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Apr 5

I interrupt this silence to report that my forthcoming book is now being advertised on the publisher’s website. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/represent...

Representations of Art and Art Museums in Children’s Picture Books

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?Thi…

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Feb 8

Also, apparently, some things dark, ugly, stupid, and horrific.

Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Feb 8

The Fedex people are as good at delivery photographs as they are at numerous other aspects of delivery.

Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jan 29

Much to my surprise, this book is not centrally concerned with what the Nodelmans have done in recent years.

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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social · Jan 17

Did Sexton change the line at some point? Did Kumin? Or is the line in Kumin's edition the one that's an error? Or what would a prospector for golf be, exactly? Can anyone help me with this, or lead me to somewhere or someone who might?