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I tutor a year 5 boy who is struggling at school and I want to use a couple of your great poems with him, if you give permission. I would like to use Advent Horizon, This Term's Target and Things I need a machine for... oh, and the King who invented tax! We will read them and use them to inspire other poetry (I hope!)
Thanks. Jane

Dear Andrea

My name is Jon McConnell, and I am working on a book full of funny poems for kids. I think we must be related somehow, because your sense of humor is just like mine! Anyways, I found your poems on your website to be some of the funniest I have seen in a long while, and I want to thank you for sharing them

I am doing a project at school and i choose you to be one of my poets. I was wondering if i could know some information abou you or if there was a website where i could find an auto biography. So if you could plaese contact me with come information tthat could be of use before may 13th. e.g When were you born?Do you have kids? Where did you go to school?
THank you for you time AnnMarie

I like khleo thomas because hes nice. if he werent, i wouldnt like him. hes very nice to everyone. i think he is a fantastic actor and singer. and yes he happens to be cute. so i think hes great and every girl should love him for his personality, not the way he looks.

Lauren indian hill school, USA

Hi my name is Dan Masseo and
I would like to use a poem you
have written called mrs.nits
in my grammar class.My teacher
asked us to make a poem or get a
good one off the internet or from a book
so with your permision i would like to use this
poem.
-Dan Masseo

Sure, use the poem, credit me as the author, and stay away from your teacher - just in case!

Hi Andrea. My name is Heather MacDonald. I am a grade 1 and 2 teacher in Mission, British Columbia, Canada. My class really enjoys Shel Silverstein poems because they are often so silly. I found your website through Ken Nesbitt's site. My class is just beginning a unit on space. Each week I write up one or two poems on large paper for my children to use for shared reading. I then copy the poem for them to include in their poetry duotangs. I would like to use your poeoms "Auntie Ethel the Extraterrestrial" and "Watch Out" for some of my poems this month.

I want to use some of your great poems because I have to memorize a poem for school and I love your homework poems so I am choosing yours. Tiffany Chow

i wanted to know it i could use your poem for school
i need to find poems of the internet about school i made
up my own too, i just need to find more poems and i found these .

hi im philip crawford i live in kentwood MI
every one says i should get my poems published
yet i want to get paid for doing it can you help

bad news I'm afraid. no one ever made any money out of poetry. Poets usually write all sorts of other stuff - books, articles, stories etc, and they also run poetry workshops and give poetry readings in schools. Poetry itself is for fun, it doesn't pay well.

melodie nussbum

I am doing a poetry project and I am using one of your poems. I was wondering if I could know some stuff about you for a biography. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey andrea,
how are you? first of all i am claudia and go to middle school. I am 13 years old and i always visit this website all I wanted to tell you is that you should get #1 web in the world! please write back if my e-mail name appears in your screen! hope to get an answer from you. (my #1 website!) bye have a nice day! sincerely, and love, Claudia O.

Dear Andrea,
I would love to exchange links with you. Here is my information so you can check out my website before deciding: Barking Spiders and Other Such Stuff:
http://www.barkingspiderspoetry.com

Poetry & short stories by published poet and children's author, C.J. Heck. Site also has mazes, lots of tongue twisters, quotations, and links for grownups and children. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Warmest regards,
CJ

I would like to use your poems about space. I am currently a student in college and am doing a unit on space and would like to include your poems.

Thank you. Candice Bly

We'd like to use the space poems as part of a school assignment to compile a poetry portfolio. We live in Southern California

Thanks. A. Modarres

Hello ! I am a college student at a community college in NY. I would like to print and compare 5 or 6 of your poems for my Children's Literature class. We were asked to pick a poet whose work we found to fun, interesting and appropriate for children. I just love your work!! I wanted to ask permission before I used your poems just in case you didn't want them printed and duplicated. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks! Sue Richards

Dear Miss,
I've found your site and decided to send several works of my students.
My name is Tzvetan Naydenov, I'm an EFL teacher in Primary School 'Petko R. Slaveikov' in Vratza, Bulgaria. We study English as a foreign language from 1st to 4th grade. My children like English and they try to write some poems and stories in English. I want to encourage them so I'm sending their works to you.
We celebrated Spring Day in Europe 2004 on March 23rd with the sound of Peace Bell in UN in New York. My pupils wrote several poems for peace. If you like their poems and decide that some of them may be published in your site I will be very grateful (You've already published one of previously sent poems-Milvina's poem). It would motivate them to study much more and other students, too.
Sincerely yours,
Tzvetan Naydenov
Primary School 'Petko R. Slaveikov'
Vratza, Bulgaria

the name of my school is Homsley Elementary, I live in Houston, Texas i need to copy a poem from the internet and I like your poems the best, because it is a grade that i will get for a good poem i choose from the internet . Nicole

Hi, I am Lauren Stapleton. I am in fourth grade and I go to Seoul American Elementary School in Seoul, South Korea. I am in Ms. Rodriguez’s class and we are doing a report about a poet for poetry appreciation month and I chose you.
I like your poems a lot, especially "Grandma Got Eaten By A Shark" and "Granny Gruesome." I thought your poems were funny; they made me feel happy. I really liked the way that you gave both of those poems a funny ending. This summer, I am going to stay at my grandma’s house. I hope that she doesn’t have me fried or grilled.
Lauren Stapleton

Anne Fiore

hey andrea,
im an extremely large fan of your web-site, and i have read the poems about 10 times over, and i was hoping you could continue updateing them! i havnt read a new poem since like 2 months ago, and it says that it only takes like a week to get our poems on the web-site! and i have sent about 3 or 4 of my own poems as well, in hope that i can show my mates my work on your web-site! so please consider the poems i have sent in, my name is Anne Fiore from Perth Western Australia! continue the updates please, otherwise i will lose interest because i am bored of all the same poems! i love poetry, please dont make me lose contact with other teens that do too! thanks!

I have published your poem on the teenage poem page. I'm sorry it takes so long sometimes.

Dear Andrea,

I very much enjoyed reading your poems and wondered if you would give me permission to use "Advent Horizon" as a poem for children to act our at a performing arts holiday week. Our theme is "Space" and about 30 youngsters from 6-15 will be acting, singing, dancing and playing their little socks off at The Mick Jagger centre in Dartford, Kent, the week after Easter.

I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best
Penny Culliford

hey i saw ur poem "Miss Picky" wondered if i could use it in the 1st edition of my school newspaper - of course your name will be placed directly below the poem.

i sure it would strike a chord with many of the pupils!

James Murray
Editor-In-Chief
Westcliff High School For Boys (UK)
Essex

I'm a fifth grade teacher in Granby, CT - I would like to copy some of your poems (probably one from each category) for my "Pick a Pocket of Poetry" bulletin board. Basically, I fill pockets on the board with all kinds of poems - kids get to pick them, if they like it, then they copy it in a journal and, hopefully, try to find some of your books!

The poems stay in the room. Let me know if that's okay with you.

Thanks, Cynthia Gordon

I have read your current book on how to pass psychometric test. Are the tests in both books original tests or ammended tests? D. Constantine-Simms

The tests are original practice tests written by SHL Group plc (except for the combination test). You will not find these exact questions when you are tested, but very similar ones. I have not made any changes to the material. Taking my tests will help you because you'll have had some practice (and will have found out where your weaknesses are) and you'll be familiar with the format. If you try them under timed conditions you'll find the fear factor will be less too. Hope this helps. Andrea

Dear Andrea,
Your advice is great and I will follow your suggestions. I am an illustrator trying to get my children's books published currently in the UK.
Thank you
Jenny Law
Illustrator & Designer
http://www.jennylaw.co.uk

Hi,
Greetings from the Highlands of Scotland.

Just wanted to say I found your site very interesting.
I will look out for your books next time I am at the bookshop/library.

I dropped into your site after visiting the Poetryzone.
I am a children's writer/poet who is finally getting around to the business of submitting.

Kind regards
Doda Smith
www.dodasmith.co.uk

Hello Andrea
Thanks very much for your visit. We all really enjoyed your poems, especially the gory ones.

I would like to reproduce a couple of the teenage poems and one of yours to include on our Poetree for World Poetry Day which we will celebrate on 22 March.
With thanks
Joy Leslie
International School of Tanganyika
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
This is a good example of why visitors to my site should always give their contact details or email address when they submit a poem – so I can contact them when somebody wants to use/publish their poem.

May I use Alex's poem about spring for my class of Year 3
children in New Zealand to enjoy?

Carol Kilford

Can I use boadicea the iceni queen- and un-stable auntie
for a poetry contest for class

alexandra
corpus christi school
falls church va

Dear Andrea

Love your peoms, I would like to use "Miss Nits" in a presentation I am doing for a college course. The presentation is on headlice & I would like to bring some humour into it.

Many Thanks
Debbie Lamb

Hello Andrea,
I was wondering if you could give me some more background information about yourself. I am an Elementary Education Major at University of Minnesota- Duluth. I have chosen you as a poet to introduce to my class of peers, and can not find out ANY background information about you! Can you believe it!
If you could please tell me about where you grew up, what inspired you to be a poet, and any other details it would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much,
Kelli Fitzgerald

Mayra Angel
Could I plesase use your moon poems, to share with my class. We're learning about the moon, the stars, and the planets, and i really wanted to read my students a few poems as examples, because they're going to have to make their own.

I found a poem on your website that I would love to include in my poetry notebook for elementary education. I am currently attending Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. I am studying elementary ed. and we are required to compile a poetry notebook, I would greatly appreciate your permission to use "Miss Picky" in my notebook. The poem will be properly cited, so all who read it will be aware that you are the author.
Thanks in advance!

Dear Andrea,

I got your book about Grandma and the Shark from the library this weekend and my 3-year old has insisted I read and re-read it over and over again. He wants to be a shark when he grows up!

David Lester

MY SON NEEDS A POEM FOR SCHOOL. WE CHOOSE THESE POEMS , NOT SURE WHICH ONE HE WANTS TO USE. WE CHOOSE TIME TO GET OUT ANDTHINGS I DID FOR LUCK. HAVE YOUR POEMS BEEN PUBLISHED? WE NEED A POEM THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED.

THANK YOU,
PRISCILLA

"Teatime" of the Nasty Poems looks like a possible inspiration for Young Guest Poet Nicole's "Bugs." Speaking of the Nasties, I couldn't help but laugh about poor Hammy and the main course. I absolutely loved the History section, but it's a weakness of mine (the Victorian Era is of particular interest of mine, right down to the technical architectual aspect.). "I Want a Boy" is actually timeless in essence.

Well after having spent so much time here browsing I only thought it fair that I leave you some feedback! Enjoyed my visit. Take care.
Percy Wells

Andrea, I am a physical education teacher in an elementary school in Michigan. I also teach human reproduction for our 4th & 5th grade girls. I am currently putting together our student handbook for the girls on this subject. The booklet we have used for several years is quite antiquated. I am in the process of re-typing it for a "fresh" look. I have been searching for pictures to add in the booklet and came across your Truth about Families." Would it be possible to use a few of your illustrations in our booklet for our young girls? The art work that is featured on the internet is wonderful!
Thanks for your response.

Ms. Deborah Raab

Andrea, I have enjoyed reading your information and would like to request permission to use a couple of your superstition poems in a workshop at a senior shared housing facility. A friend and I, both part time poets, do a workshop for some elderly friends every two weeks. Our next topic is Superstitions and I came across your website by way of Google. Enjoyed your writing very much and think the seniors will be interested to hear about you and listen to your poems. we are in Montclair, N. J., USA.
Thank you for replying as soon as possible.

I liked the poem "Mommy Johnny Brought A Gun To School" and I would like to use that poem in the uil competition at our school.
Lindsey Cason, TX

I don't know who wrote this brilliant poem (although it was sent in to me by somebody who pretended she'd written it). If anyone knows who the real author is please get in touch with me.

Dear Andrea
The children in year 1/2 (aged 5-7) at my school would like to recite "Predictable" at our house poetry competition.

I hope you will give your permission and if possible send a word of encouragement!
St Joseph's Convent School
Reading.

Hi, my name is Angela Quinones. I am a student at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. I am going to school to become an elementary teacher, and right now I am working on a project for my Children's Literature class, and I could really use your help. The assignment is based on me doing a biographical paper on a popular children's poet, and I chose to do you. I was just wondering if you could tell me what made you get into writing children's poems, as well as what inspires your poems. I would greatly appreciate it if you could get back to me as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

Hi

I am a teacher of 10 year olds. It is the beginning of our school year, and i would like to use your poems in the school category to promote discussions of feelings about school and each other, as well as looking at some fantastic poems!

the poems would be printed onto sheets of paper and laminated so that the children can refer to them during the school year.

thanks for your consideration

juliet rogers
Royal Oak Primary School
Auckland
New Zealand

I would like to use your poem Advent Horizon as an example of how to analyse poetry in a KS2 literacy hour. I thought this would be good to use as it will catch the children's imagination.

I am a trainee teacher at Hull university and I am on my KS2 teaching practice at new Holland Primary School in N Lincs.

Thanks
rachel grange

I would like to include a few of your poems in a project i have to do for my children's literature class i am currently taking at Monroe County Comm. College. I will give you full credit for your work. I just need to put a collection of poems together from many different authors. The teacher is aware that this is not the student's work.
thank you very much,
angie martin

I am a Indian and I got a chance to read your book Landing Your First Job. Actually i am a member of British Council at Chennai. Thanks for your nice book which is helping to millions.
I have a doubt. Actually I am searching job and constantly I am facing one question as
"Reason for looking for a change in Job" and I am not getting the appropriate answer for that.
If you kindly give me the appropriate replay for this than i would be grateful to you.

Dear Mrutyunjaya - "Why do you want to change your job?" can be hard to answer – you don’t want to admit to perhaps not getting on with your colleagues, hating your boss or anything else that might put a potential employer off. Acceptable reasons would be needing a greater challenge, wanting to work nearer to home, looking for more responsibility etc, but even these reasons are not enough by themselves. What you’re really being asked is, "Why do you want to work for me?" "Why do you want this particular job?" Find out as much as you can about the job and the company, then ask yourself honestly, "Do I still want this job?" "What are the advantages" "Why would I be good at it?" "Would I enjoy it?" "Why would this company benefit from me working for them" (the answers will, of course, be different for everyone and for every single job). Only then can you sound enthusiastic enough to convince an employer to take you on.

Dear Andrea,

I have your book how to pass psychometric tests. Are the tests genuine practice tests that can be purchased from SHL or are they selected aspects of original tests?

Roy
Luton, UK

Dear Roy - both my books Passing Psychometric Tests and Psychometric Tests for Graduates are full of completely genuine SHL practice tests. They cannot be purchased from SHL, and even if they could, it would cost you considerably more than the £8.99 or so for my books.

No one is going to show you, or sell you, the exact psychometric test papers you’ll get (let's face it, if SHL did that they wouldn’t have much of a business left).

The bottom line is - don't worry about specific questions, take the practice tests, understand the format, bone up on areas you didn't do too well in (remember everyone has strengths and weaknesses so don't give yourself a hard time about it) and above all, feel confident for having had lots of practice.

Hi, i was wondering if i can chose one of your poems to present in front of my class. I was thiking about "Shool Report" or "Miss picky" I promise i will give you credit
because i didn't write the poems. I go to high school in canada ontario an all girl school.
Please and thank you

I really like your space poems and I was wondering if you would allow me to read them to a group of nursery children aged 3- 5 yrs. They are looking at various things related to space and I think your poems would add something to their project. Many thanks. PS They would not be copied except for me to read.
allison jones

Hi thurrr,
I am 13 years old, and i Live in shelton, connecticut, usa

i love your poems about the teachers and i have a project to do, i have to compair too poems to each other, it would be really kewl if i could use them :) ("MISS NITS"and
"DUMBO")

Sure, use them for your project but please credit me as the author. If you want a personal reply next time, remember to type in your email address on the visitor comments form.

i think that ur poems need to be a little more sensitive cutting off heads and starving to death aren't exactly children related poems. thank you.

Children's literature is full of scary monsters, revolting relatives, wicked witches - just read Dahl, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Alice in Wonderland, practically every fairytale etc. My stuff's quite tame in comparison!

HI ANDREA I LOVE YOUR BOOKS AND YOUR POEMS I REALLY WHANT TO BE LIKE YOU I HAVE SOME POEMS BUT I REALLY DONT THINK THERE ANY GOOD WELL I LIVE IN VERNON TX 76384 AND I GO TO SCHOOL AT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLWELL I SEE YOU LATER

SINCERLY FRANCIS MARTINEZ

Dear Andrea,

I give English lessons once a week to primary school pupils in La Buisse (France), a village situated 25 km in the North of Grenoble. I was about looking for poems to teach to my pupils, but for something particular; and then I found your poems, which are quite special, amazing, strange, and very different from all other poems I read. So I wonder if it is possible to use some of your poems during my lessons. I am particularly interested by : - Predictable, - Something horrible, - Auntie Ethel the extraterrestrial

These poems are very rich concerning vocabulary, and I think that they are not at all boring to learn - such as other poems I used to learn when I was young.

I really would appreciated a positive answer and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely Yours,
Simone ALLARD-JACQUIN

My name is Tiffany Godschalk I am a 13 year old and I am in 8th Grade, and attend Sayville Middle School. Writing is my favourite thing to you...I had a great deal of websites and I saw yours and thought it was the best...
Tiffany Godschalk

My son is in second grade and he will compete in his school Oral Language Competition Faire on December 15, 2003. His school name is John Ehrhardt Elementary, in Elk Grove, CA 95758. He needs to recite a humorous poem written by you, if possible. The poem needs to be 2 to 3 minutes long. Have you written a humorous poem that he could recite or if possible, could you please suggest one to him.

Cordially,
Esther Ubois

Hi I'm a student teacher and we've been asked to find a poem about space that we like and would be able to use with a class. I'd like to use your poem 'Advent Horizon' its to be used on a discussion board for the university and only people in my language class would have access to read it. Thanks

I'm taking a Young Adult Literature course for which we are required to read young adult novels of various genres - realism, historical, fantasy, biography, etc. For each genre we are to attach a poem that we feel is reflective of the genre. I read Carolyn Meyer's Mary, Bloody Mary for the historical genre assignment and thus was looking for a poem about King Henry VIII to include, thus the use of your poems "I Want a Boy" and "The Show" are perfect to accompany my paper about the book.

I am a student in college in Dubar, Wisconsin. I am in a children's literature class where we are doing a poetry program. I am doing mine on pets and wish to use your "I Haven't Got a Pet" poem as part of it. I thought it was so cute! Thank you!
Joy Williams

your poems are not bad and im into poetry but i get pissed off when i come to this site all it says is andrea's poems this and andreas poems that but i do like some...of your work

Well it is my website! And I do have hundreds of poems on the site which are not written by me.

Andrea,
Wonderful poems!! I am a PGCE student (post grad teacher training) at Aberdeen University. Tomorrow I have to take in a favourite children's poem to a Literacy Workshop. Please could I use Miss Nits (I love limericks - they remind me of the fun I used to have making them up with my brother) or 'How to Successfully Persuade your Parents to give you More Pocket Money' as this reminds me of my own 3 boys and the puppy dog eyes routine we always go through whenever they want something!
With thanks

Niccy Smith

Hello Andrea,
I have been looking for 'Space' poems to use with my class of 9-10 year olds and came across your site. Would love to have your permission to read these to my class on 27/10/03 when we are having an Enrichment Day for Year 5. We are basing our work on 'Space' and the children will be involved in activities including art, poetry, music, cookery and ICT. The children will love your poetry. Please e mail me with your decision. Thanks.
Maggie Hewitson Yr 5 Leader

Dear Andrea,

Hello, my daughter has a biography paper about you due in school. We've been looking all over for information about you and were unable to find it. Would you please e-mail me back with a little background information on yourself? Where did you grow up? Are you married? Do you have children? Things like that.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,
Glory Ann Harnois

G'day from Australia. I need your help. I am a First Officer flying for Qantaslink (Regional) Airlines based in Cairns. Early next year I'll be sitting a Psychometric Test with Qantas (International) and they use SHL for their exams. The Numerical, Abstract Reasoning, Spatial Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning in your book (Passing Psychometric Tests) is exactly the same as their test. I really need more exposure to these types of questions. I'll definitely be buying your new book but I was wondering if you could help me get more questions to practice on. This is my dream job, I've spent hundreds of dollars on all sorts of books but yours is the exact exam type questions. Any help would be appreciated and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Scotty Parker

You're right, Passing Psychometric Tests is the only psychometric book which has genuine practice SHL tests. My new book Psychometric Tests for Graduates will be in the shops/internet stores by 1st November 2003. Although mainly aimed at graduates, many of the tests are extremely challenging and therefore good practice for anyone applying for a high level position. The book also includes practice tests for the SHL Scenarios, Fastrack and Brainstorm management tests, plus the OPQ 32. For more info click here.

In both books there are tips on improving your skills, and obviously you will want to read up on Quantas history/aviation stuff/ industry reporting/staff magazines/specialist papers etc you can read. Also ask them if they supply practice material, or past papers - some companies do so it's worth asking. Also see my career link page on my web site for some internet sites with more tests (but the number of good sites is few and far between).

You must also stop worrying. I know it’s easy for me to say that, but you sound pretty intelligent, you obviously have the right experience and are incredibly enthusiastic – 3 things I’m sure Quantas will be highly impressed by. Psychometric tests are only 1 tool used by recruiters, luckily the good old interview and gut feeling still play a major role.

HI Andrea,

Just found your website quite by accident really. Having looked at it, I feel inspired to perhaps do some freelance writing of my own. Where do I begin? Where do I get contacts for starting some small scale works? reviews perhaps, obviously I want to get paid, how much should I expect to earn? A lot of questions I know, but I wonder would you please spend a short while answering my queries and point me in the right direction?

Thanks - looking at your site makes me think I could do this too.

I have added some 'get published' pages here to this site for all those of you who want to write stories, business stuff or poetry and need tips on how to begin. I will add more but there's quite a lot to be going on with.

I have read your poems and noticed the copyright. I would like to use your poem in my Year 2 class assembly on Thursday 23rd October as we are studying the Victorians. Thank you.

Helen Williams
Kineton Green Primary School
Olton, Solihull, West Midlands, England!!

I am in grade 7 at Primary School and I would like to read your poem Grandma was eaten by a shark to my class on Tuesday 21st October 2003.

Hi Andrea,

I just visited your site after such a long time. I
should like to tell you that I enjoyed reading all
your new poems. I am both amazed and inspired !
Keep writing and making us LAUGH!!!!!!!

---- Nicole

Yes, you can read all sorts of funny poems of mine by clicking here
And you can also read some of Nicole's own poems here

While meandering my way through the sea of serenity which is cyberspace i was blessed to come upon a rainbow in the sky which brought me to the pot of gold which is your site. I believe letting people know when you enjoy their work. Like an echo across a valley your site resonated with positive energy. Bravo!

My name is Micheal Teal. I am a Psychic , Spiritual Advisor and Poet in Canada. I wish you great success and profound happiness.

Some of your poems are very funny and I enjoyed reading them all. Actually was looking for back to school poems for displaying on one of the bulletin boards welcoming students .

Shamim

just to let you know the children have finished their website and have added your poem with links to your site.

Thank you for letting us use the poem, it will go down really well on the site because Home Educated families are always going on about how their children no longer seem to get "Nits" now they're not at school :o)

LOVED all your poems! Great fun! Especially the superstition poem about sleeping
with the wedding cake under the pillow to see the future husband - one to
avoid.

Also, many thanks for permission to show your poems to my new creative writing class. They
are BRILLIANT for children (and not just kids, I was really seeing themarvellous word pictures
which you so effortlessly paint!) and object lessons in how to write thought-provoking,
word-stretching and amusing poetry.

So thanks again.

Lindsay Townsend

Wow! As if you didn’t know, Lindsay Townsend is one of the UK’s most well-loved novelists, author of Chasing Rachel, Night of the Storm and Voices in the Dark. And she has her own web site http://www.lindsal.demon.co.uk/townsend/home.htm

When you write your poems do you express your feeling and doubt about your self and others you don't really care for a reason or can you write more of your poems so one of your biggst fans.

love one of your biggest fans,
Emilio Massey

When I write poetry, it's usually just for fun, not really for any reason, except to make children smile, or cringe, or shriek.....

Please write more poems and put them on your website. One of your biggest fans.

Love,
Savannah Palzote
Whiteriver Az

Actually I have recently added lots more of my poems - click here to see what there is.

Stella

As Stella is to Star and Athena a Greek goddess, what is the meaning of your name, Andrea?

The name Andrea means 'manly' in Italian - you see it's a boy's name in Italy. Hopefully I am not too manly! But one Italian name web site says people named Andrea are poetic, so that's nice to know.

Dear Andrea , I'd like to use your school poems for an anthology I am creating for our school (just our school!) I an a special needs teacher and work with boys with severe behavioural/emotional problems....they would like your poems !
Jenni Lee-Miller
Brighton
England

Ms. Shavick,
I am a Elementary Education Student at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA and I have to do a poetry project for my language arts class. I found that one of your poems Un-Stable Auntie would fit into my project and I would like permission to use it. If you could get back to me as soon as possible it would be very helpful.
Thank you.
Candice Delcamp

*! Country Gal !*

Hey... this website is awesome. I really liked everyone's poems, and ideas... and I hope that you guys publish your poems, or at least enter a contest... they're all winners! See ya later

I linked to you any chance for a link in return please?
by the way I love your site:-) Paul Watson at www.loadsofodes.co.uk

Yes I've given you a link - here and on the link page. Anyone else with a good poetry or author website, especially for kids, please contact me here and let me know if you want to swap links.

I would like permission to use "miss nits" on my children's website.
It's aimed at home educated children in the Uk and they are doing a page of funny poems about school and learning ..........we thought yours were great and would love to feature one if that's ok, we would of course add your name to it.

Regards
Jacky Butler

P.S I love poetry and enjoyed reading them on your site, keep up the good work.

Hi Andrea, I am planning a poetry gallery for my 7th graders in Jessamine County in KY.
I am looking for poems about bullying and school violence since that is the service-learning project my students will be working with in language arts and through their writing this year. I found your poem "Report Card" and would like to add that to our gallery. Please let me know if I may as soon as possible. Also, if you have other ideas for working with bullying and school violence I would love to hear them.
Thanks, Sheena Roller

Hi,
I would like to ask you permission to use some of the poems to share with my students during our focused poetry session in our balanced literacy program. The students learn a poem by reading, chanting and illustrating it. It helps our ESL students. May we use your poems? I really enjoyed them.
P. Minjarez

Thank you for allowing us to share your poems. We are located in New Mexico the closest city is El Paso, TX. We are a rural community that borders Texas. Our school is in the Gadsden District in New Mexico. We are a dual language school and my students learn in English and Spanish. I have 18 students.

I will credit your work when we share them in our focused poetry. Thank you again. Pat

hi, im from nz a lil country by ausie.
all your poems r interesting, pretty cool 2.

i dont know what i am ment 2 write but yeh
c ya

Andrea,

I am in senior year at school and we have been asked to write a composition for Music. They have supplied us with some words which we could use, however they are not very good. We have been given permission to use other words, just as long as we correctly reference them if they are not our own. I would really like to use one of your poems for my song.

Sincerely,

Tiffany

Andrea - I'm introducing space poetry to to some kids in Calvert County Md. next week and want to use some of your excellent poems as examples to get them thinking - Naturally I would give you credit as author/poet. May I please?

Gary Lloyd

Hello Andrea,
I was having a quick browse through your poems and would love to use "Watch Out!" as a motivator for a handwriting lesson with my Year Fours- we are doing space at the moment and funnily enough they don't seem to think copying handwriting pages from a book is all that fun!
I was hoping to use it next week (first week of August) if I could- it would be wonderful to use!
Thanks

Andrea!

I am in New Zealand, and will be sitting the Saville and Holdsworth Numerical Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning tests in 2 days' time. I found out last week and quickly found and ordered your book on the net. It arrived today and I have been into it with great enthusiasm tonight - excellent book by the way - well done!.

David Sellars.
Auckland
New Zealand.

Hi, I would like to use the poem called nature by Reece, 12, uk for stimulus in a jungle drama workshop I will be running next week and also possibly include it in a small showing of the work to parents. The workshop is for 5 -7 year olds. From Jill.

I have been searching the net for a poem to use in a writing presentation to a group of teachers. Your poem "AUNTIE ETHEL THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL" is exactly what I need to teach the use of adjectives. It is quite different and I think it will be a big hit.
I am a teacher in Toronto, Canada and am taking a course to help me improve my teaching of reading and writing. Thanks for giving me permission to use your poem in my demonstration lesson. Take care,
Mila

You can read Auntie Ethel on the Andrea's poems page, and also in my book Grandma was Eaten by a Shark!

well at the moment it's Creative Writing by Gervase Finn and Jabberwocky by Louise Carroll

Dear Andrea,

Do you have any poems about love? Like crushes, or getting your heart broken? Thanx. I think it's cool we have the same 1st name!

Andrea Cobb

p.s. If you ever meet Khleo Thomas tell him to look me up in Texas!

Andrea - lots of love poems on the teenage poetry pages - hundreds of them actually.

Hi

Your book is really good "Passing Psychometric Tests"
It really helped me.

Regards
Vinay

TIANA

HI,
I DON'T KNOW YOU, BUT I LOVE THAT POEM YOU KNOW UMMMMM... "GRANDMA GOT EATEN BY A SHARK" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I HEAR YOU KNOW KHLEO THOMAS/KHALEED LEON THOMAS. WELL, TELLL HIM I LOVE HIM & IF YOU HAVE HIS E-MAIL OR SOME INFO TELL ME.

Hi Andrea,

Surfed into your site purely by chance, I just loved your poems, they brought a smile to my face. Like yourself I write poetry for children, however unlike yourself I am as yet unpublished. If you have a spare moment you may like to read some of my poems on my website that I have recently built, My site can be found at: http://mysite.freeserve.com/pauls_stories

I like Ghost poem the best. It's funny and it reminds me of my dad. He calls it the Daddy Tax-especially on Halloween and Easter.

Jaelin and Khleo Thomas Lover

Dear Andrea,
We loved your poem called "Grandma got eaten by a shark".
It was very funny! We will come back to this website very soon!

zoe

I don't know you but tell khleo Thomas that I really really really really really really really really really really really love him .........

I would like, with your permission, to use your poems, Auntie Betty Thinks She's Batgirl, Watching, Our Ghost, Miss Nits, Too Many Presents, Black Holes, Auntie Janet, and Un-Stable Auntie for my fifth grade students to read aloud in class.
Thank you!

--- Hi and Thank you! Our school is Windlake, which
is located in Milwaukee, WI.
Lisa Smits
29.4.03

Hello!
I am an IB1 student in the American Int'l School of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In my English class we are writing poem anthologies. I have chosen to write about children. I really like your poem ' How to successfully persuade your parents to give you more pocket money'. i was wondering if I could add it to my list of poems. I will source and site where i have gotten it from. My anthology is due on the 26th of april, 2003 so if you could please reply before then, that would be great! Thanking you very much!
Meera Al Suwaidi

Would you mind if I memorized and recited "Miss Nits" for my 3rd grade class? I really like it. I hope my teacher does too.

I work with an organization called the NJ Orators in which we teach children how to be good orators. We use literature, poems, short stories, etc.

Our format is to have the child introduce him/her self. Tell what they are presenting, who it is by, why they selected the piece and any other information they may have on the author. Then they present the piece using the techniques learned during the semester.

Your poems are simple enough for out children to memorize and because of the content, it is easier for them to relate to the subject manner.

I love "Watching", I don't think it's particularly original but I am all for
"re-mystifying" what science has de-mystified! It is a beautiful poem!
"Auntie Janet" I really like, and "Unstable Auntie" (it seems you like, or
rather dislike, Aunts too!); the latter is up my and I love the naughty line that
she should be "like other cows" - I don't think kids should miss out on that
for the sake of an Aunt being called a "cow"! "Bad Boy" is great, and
visually interesting - I love the shifting of gears up and down, the change
in pace! And the title piece from your recent book was also a great read -
the line "I was very upset about that!" (speaking of the dog being eaten by
the catfish - that whole reversal works really well!!!) is wonderful!

Hi--I wanted to use "How To Successfully Persuade Your Parents..." for my English class next week. We are to provide a poem for children to share with other future teachers. I found you online, really enjoyed the way the poem was written, and printed a copy to bring to class. Is that okay?---Yolie, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.

I just visited the Young Guest Poet Page - it's perfect!!
Of course, the "new poetry star in the making" bit made me
smile and laugh at the same time. It feels superb.
You made my day! Thank you.

--- Nicole

Hello Andrea! I was recently assigned to make a poetry packet of an author
of my choice. I was to take a few selected poems that interested me, and
explicate a few, while having others comment on several. Even though I am
in 10th grade honors English, I really enjoyed your poems (for younger
children.) They were both cute and funny, and they reminded me of when I
was an 'innocent youth.' My favorite poem was "How To Successfully Persuade
Your Parents To Give You More Pocket Money." I know I do all of those
things described, and I'm going to try the easier method from now on. Then
when my mother says no, at least she won't be upset with me for begging and
complaining! Anyway, we were supposed to ask if our poet would be willing
to come and read poetry at some point. I know that wouldn't be an easy
thing to do, because we are in high school, and your the poetry that I read
deals primarily with younger children, which is okay. I'm just happy to
have had the chance to be able to at least E-mail you and thank you for
writing refreshing poetry that I don't have to read over 10 times before I
understand the meaning of it!

Keep up the good work :)

Yours Truly,
Angela Matula

p.s. I also enjoyed the Auntie Janet poem about the peanut butter sandwich.
My favorite childish food is peanut butter, so that made me laugh...out
loud!

Dear Andrea Shavick

We liked reading some of your poems. We liked Our Ghost and Miss
Nits. We also liked Too Many Presents and Black Holes and Auntie Janet. We liked
Un-Stable Auntie and Bad Boy, Pongy Old Musk Ox and Things I need a
Machine For.

First Grade students at Queen of Peace.

I am putting together a poetry unit to be used primarily by 3-5th grade students and would like to include 2 of your poems, Watching and Miss Nits. I think I will also provide a link to your website for the kids to use for additional independent learning and exploration.

Buckeye Elementary School, AZ

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