Bobbi Katz
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Bobbi is happy to be participating in Scholastic's global literacy campaign, Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life.
To find out more about this important literacy campaign please click here. EXCITING NEWS!!!The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme has been announced as a FINALIST for the 2009 Cybils, Children's and Young Adult Blogger's Literary Awards.
For more information on the Cybils please visit www.cybils.com For a full list of 2009 Finalists and award information here is a printable PDF 2009 Finalist & Info PDF 
More Exciting News!
The Monsterologist; A Memoir in Rhyme received a Bookbinders' Guild Award at the New York Book Show! Check out the fun website for The Monsterologist: TheMonsterologist.com Find out about the new book, play a game, and more!!! ATTENTION KIDS, TEACHERS & LIBRARIANS!Here’s a CONTEST where everyone wins!
Start by reading Once Around the Sun! It's really my year in poems. Next let me know about something in your year in a poem. Try to capture the essence of an experience you’ve had during a particular month. It can be something small that you experienced with one or more of your senses or something as big as the seashore or a mountain. Capture the spirit of the month you choose and try to make it come alive for whoever reads your poem. I think EVERYONE is going to like this book, but the contest is only open to kids. Teachers and librarians, however, can use the contest as a way of inviting kids to focus on reading and writing, especially during POETRY MONTH. They can help get students' work to me by the end of April, 2010. The Prize I will spend a day at the winning school or library, giving workshops, writing, and reading with students in the fall of 2010. I will not charge an honorarium but will request travel expenses. To Enter Send entries by snail mail, with clearly spelled names and addresses to: BOBBI KATZ 82 Riverview, Port Ewen, NY 12466 All entries must be received by April 30th, 2010. No e-mail entries are eligible. GOOD LUCK! 
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Welcome!
“Calling all young monster-wannabe's! If you want a blueprint for becoming Bluebeard or a crack at the Kraken, ghostwriter Bobbi Katz' memoir-in- rhyme THE MONSTEROLOGIST will provide you with the perfect job descriptions. Guaranteed to provide shivers and quivers (and giggles) galore!” – Mary Ann Hoberman, Children’s Poet Laureate, and author of A House is a House for Me “THE MONSTEROLOGIST (a.k.a. Bobbi Katz) clamps a verse reverse half-Nelson on each of her ghouls and pins them in seconds flat. Her poetremendous lines, paired with Adam McCauley’s trollishly clever illustrations, bring these beasties back from the dead and lock them in a room from which they will never escape—your imagination.” – J. Patrick Lewis, author of Please Bury Me in the Library “This book gives me the creeps! But that's a good thing, as Bobbi Katz brings monsters to life in this Who's Who of Monsterhood, from Grendel to the Golem, from Yeti to Kracken. And Adam McCauley's clever and audicious illustrations work hand-in-hand (or should that be claw-in-claw?) with the poems to create a match made in the nether world.” – Paul B. Janeczko, author of Hey, You! Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things
Copyright c2004 by Bobbi Katz 
Enjoy my interview with young Emma from Meet Me At The Corner as we sit down at Poet's House in New York City to discuss the world of poetry.
For more you information on Meet Me At The Corner and Poets House you can simply click here: Meet Me At The Corner Poets House Have you noticed how many people are reading, writing, and listening to poetry? Poetry Festivals featuring day after day of verse draw huge crowds. Why? Maybe we're so flooded by language, by endless sound-bites trying to sell everything from soap to politicians, that we're trying to give words new meaning. But imagine...
A Scarcity of Words What if words were suddenly endangered like cheetahs and pandas and elephants? What if words became scarce, the supply suddenly limited? Would people panic, hurrying to say things just to get them said or would they hoard their thoughts like misers? What if words were being used up so fast that they had to be rationed and you could only have a certain amount? Which fifty, which twenty, which ten words would you choose to recycle, respect, repeat, replay, write or say if words were suddenly endangered... and precious? Copyright c1995 by Bobbi Katz 
Kids often ask me how a poem begins or where I get my ideas. Their questions gave me this answer.
Spider Work
I didn't mean to write a poem. A tingling starts a single spinneret I cast a line that may or may not rhyme but d a n g l e s trembling, beckoning me to weave a web of words: a poem to house my spiderling. Copyright c2006 by Bobbi Katz 
Hafner c2003
Cat Kisses Sandpaper kisses on a cheek or chin- that is the way for a day to begin! Sandpaper kisses- a cuddle, a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered with fur. Copyright c 1974 Bobbi Katz |
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