Perry Nodelman
@ndlmn.bsky.social
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.
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.
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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.
A Tyger in the Store
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A Tyger in the Store
Writing Poetry as a Goal
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November 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM
A Tyger in the Store
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Showing the Meaning or Truth of Something
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October 24, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Showing the Meaning or Truth of Something
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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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October 13, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Imaginary Gardens with Illustrated Toads in Them
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Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents
Years 5 and Up
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October 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents
Years 5 and Up
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October 2, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Oh, Wait, It Wasn't the Complete Works After All: More Works to Add to the Works
August 5, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Oh, Wait, It Wasn't the Complete Works After All: More Works to Add to the Works
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A Fly Sends a Letter to a Bee
Adult Poems in The Works
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July 30, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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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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July 26, 2024 at 2:22 PM
The Ambleside and the Works
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The Playground Goes to School
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A Closer Look at The Works open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
The Playground Goes to School
A Closer Look at The Works
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July 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM
The Playground Goes to School
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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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June 5, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Experiencing poetry with my children. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/more-on-le...
My childhood in poetry.https://open.substack.com/pub/perrynodelman/p/learning-about-poetry?r=2hbznk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
June 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
My childhood in poetry.https://open.substack.com/pub/perrynodelman/p/learning-about-poetry?r=2hbznk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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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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May 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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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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May 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
What is a treasury? A new post about children and poetry. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
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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May 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Yet more about The Echoing Green on my Children and Poetry Substack: Cecil Day-Lewis and William Blake
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A new post on my Children and Poetry
Substack. This one is about one particular anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
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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May 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
A new post on my Children and Poetry
Substack. This one is about one particular anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
Substack. This one is about one particular anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
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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May 9, 2024 at 3:50 PM
A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack, this time about one specific anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
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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May 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM
A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...
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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May 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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...
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College Is an Education in Bullshit
The value of universities is in revealing how they themselves suck.
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April 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Some ugly truths. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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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April 5, 2024 at 1:08 AM
I interrupt this silence to report that my forthcoming book is now being advertised on the publisher’s website. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/represent...
Also, apparently, some things dark, ugly, stupid, and horrific.
February 8, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Also, apparently, some things dark, ugly, stupid, and horrific.
The Fedex people are as good at delivery photographs as they are at numerous other aspects of delivery.
February 8, 2024 at 1:17 AM
The Fedex people are as good at delivery photographs as they are at numerous other aspects of delivery.
Much to my surprise, this book is not centrally concerned with what the Nodelmans have done in recent years.
January 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Much to my surprise, this book is not centrally concerned with what the Nodelmans have done in recent years.
In one of the lines in In her poem "The Lobster" as found in many places on the Internet, Anne Sexton says that "he is the old prospector for golf, with secret dreams of God-heads and fish heads." A golf prospector?
January 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM
In one of the lines in In her poem "The Lobster" as found in many places on the Internet, Anne Sexton says that "he is the old prospector for golf, with secret dreams of God-heads and fish heads." A golf prospector?