



But still I throw the squeaky sheep in this show, Maggie is the star. In Maggie’s brown eyes I notice a twinkleĪs she begins to bark. Those words then become the last words in the lines of a new poem. (The line that is borrowed is referred to as the “striking line.”) For example: Here’s how the golden shovel works: You take one line from a poem (or you can take a few lines or a short poem in its entirety) and write it out down the right side of a page, one word per line. Tell students that there is a form of poetry called the golden shovel in which part of one poem is borrowed and used as the starting point for a whole new poem. He has won five more Coretta Scott King Awards and three Coretta Scott King Honors.Explain the Golden Shovel Method (7 minutes) His first book, Uptown, won the Coretta Scott King Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Award. He has won four Caldecott Honors for Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews, and Dave the Potter by Laban Carack Hill. He began painting at the age of 15 and eventually landed a scholarship to attend Pratt Institute in New York. He has successfully channeled his creative energy and love of art into an illustrious career as a children's book illustrator and writer. Visit her online at Bryan Collier loves to paint. She won the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Nikki is also the author of four other Coretta Scott King Honor books: TALKIN' ABOUT BESSIE, JAZMIN'S NOTEBOOK, THE ROAD TO PARIS, and DARK SONS. Nikki Grimes won a 2014 Coretta Scott King Honor for WORDS WITH WINGS, and she is the author of BRONX MASQUERADE, which won the Coretta Scott King Award.
