Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! What are you doing today to help make the earth GREEN?

I'm trying to drive less today, reduce waste, properly recycle and turned the heat down in the house. (Where's my sweater? It's wet and cool today where I live.)

According to the David Suzuki Foundation Website, if you took all the spaces where heat could escape in an average Canadian home and put them all together they would make a hole a size of a basketball! Properly weather sealing your windows and doors can help reduce the problem.

In my unpublished book, IF MY FISH HAD FEET I have two environmental poems. THE MOTHER OF ROCK AND ROLL and HUMPHRY DUMPHRY.

HUMPHRY DUMPHRY is what I call a MOTHER GOOSE-ISM. A MOTHER GOOSE-ISM is taking a Mother Goose poem and changing the words and the meaning of the poem. Children do this all the time. For example, during my daughter's swimming class we sing the following before jumping into the pool.

Jack be nimble.
Jack be cool.
Jack jump into
The swimming pool.

Here is another blogger's post about Earth Day you might be interested in: Lori Calabrese Writes!: Celebrate Earth Day with these children's books

Leave a comment on what you are doing to participate in Earth Day or if you have a MOTHER GOOSE-ISM of your own.

WHO IS AUNTIE FLAMINGO?

Mother Goose has a sister.
I bet you didn't know.
She's pink, tall and graceful.
She's Auntie Flamingo.

Her rhymes are a little different,
With a unique style.
They’re silly and they're funny,
Sure to make you smile.

Mother Goose has a sister.
I bet you didn't know.
She's pink, tall and graceful.
She's Auntie Flamingo.

Welcome! I am Auntie Flamingo, an author of children's poetry. I'm currently working on a book which will be a collection of some of my best poetry. When published, I will donate 10% of my personal profits to a children's charity. I will announce which charity when my book is published.

Have a comment or question? I would be more than happy to answer your emails and I may even post your question and answer on my blog. Contact me at auntieflamingo@gmail.com