Going, Going, Gone Volume One

About the Book

This book contains a collection of poems and verse about a variety of extinct, rare, endangered, or threatened species of the Western Hemisphere. Always factual in content, they also appeal to the reader’s emotions and will. I hope they will be enjoyed by classroom teachers and their students, as well as family units, as they share the information found here and discover how to make a difference in the lives of so many creatures upon our planet.

Some poems were written for fourth to sixth grade reading levels and some for seventh to ninth grade reading levels. I have found that students younger than ten enjoy them if they are read to them enthusiastically. There is also a "Toddler Time" section.

About the Author

The author resides in Michigan where she is a middle-school teacher of world languages. Numerous trips abroad have enhanced her writing and teaching. She has written collections for youth; numerous limericks; romantic poems on orchids, cacti, and other flowers; tributes to various people and events; hymns and praise choruses. This volume follows volume one, on animals from the Western Hemisphere, and volume two, featuring species from Africa and Europe. She was fascinated with the mammals and birds from Australia and environs and found herself falling in love with the lovely honeycreepers of the Hawaiian islands, whose habitat has been disturbed, almost beyond repair. As she finds herself looking for solutions--miraculous or mundane--to the plight of many creatures, she hopes that you will be inspired to do the same.