![]() You can either directly copy and paste or make edits to create a truly personal message for the special man in your life. Whether you’re looking for something cute, funny or romantic, I’ve got you covered. He also really really loves being a dad to two remarkable kids, and husband to an amazing wife.It’s no secret that long distance relationships can be hard work – especially on the extra-special occasions you’d love to spend together in person! If it’s not possible to see them this year, and you’re looking to send a beautifully crafted card or letter along with a gift for your partner, look no further! It’s not always easy to find the words, so below you’ll find a bunch of ideas for long distance birthday wishes for your boyfriend or husband. I’m also passionate in my efforts to help elementary teachers feel comfortable using poetry in their classrooms.” Scheu tries to write a poem every day, and when he’s not writing, or visiting schools, he loves to eat cereal with lots of milk, and ride his bike–just like any kid his age. I think poetry does that better than any other form of writing because the form is loose and brief, and there is often a deep emotional connection. “My goal in my writing, and especially in my teaching, is to help kids find their own voices. He considers the writing workshops to be his most important work. Ted spends about 100 days a year visiting schools around the country–sharing his poems, and helping young writers, in writing workshops, find their voices and have the kind of fun with poems that he never had as a kid. By sharing his humor, his energy, and his love of poetry with children, Scheu inspires kids to take a more poetic and confident approach in their own writing. ![]() His poems are written in his own anxious child-voice–a voice he says he rarely expressed as a kid. Ted’s poems, with titles like “I Froze My Mother” “There’s An Alien in Our Bathroom,” “My Mirror Really Likes Me,” “Cursive Curse,” “Who Needs Recess?” and “Sore Head,” touch right to the heart of important issues in the lives of children. He also has poems published in numerous anthologies including, I Invited a Dragon to Dinner, (Philomel, NY, 2002), in five anthologies from Meadowbrook Press, and in several books in the UK by Hodder, Macmillan and Scholastic. His poems are published in nearly two dozen books in the US and UK, including five collections: I Froze My Mother, I Tickled My Teachers, I Threw My Brother Out, Now I Know My ZBCs, and most recently, Getting the Best of Me, all from Young Poets’ Press. Ted is a former elementary teacher (also a naval officer, carpenter, advertising exec and copywriter) who started writing funny poems seriously about 20 years ago. Ted didn’t like poems as a kid growing up in Connecticut, because all the poems he found back then were about love, nature, and beauty, or about bratty little British kids, and not at all about his life and his concerns–which were mostly centered around sports and food. Ted Scheu (pronounced “shy”) is a children’s poet from Middlebury, Vermont who is often introduced as a 3rd or 4th grader stuck in a grown-up’s body. ![]() ![]() I mostly need to search and write, and search and write, and revise, and revise, and revise, until they finally reveal themselves. They are not there waiting patiently and excitedly for me. I like to think that words are lurking inside the tip of my pencil- waiting to burst out onto my page, just when I need them. Macmillan Children’s Books, UK. Reprinted by permission of the author. Those silly words were hiding in my pencil all the while.Ĭopyright © 2004 Ted Scheu. ![]()
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