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Authors: Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Description: From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention, and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them, poems just waiting to be written down.
Suggested Ages: 4 to 7.
