Please Bury Me in the Library

Each day this week a children's poetry book and a poem will be featured to celebrate Young People's Poetry Week (2013) as well as recipes and other book reviews for the grown-ups. 

Please Bury Me in the Library  is an eye-catching title for all those book lovers who can't get enough of reading. J.Patrick Lewis's book is a collection of 16 poems that celebrate books, reading, language and libraries. Each selection encompasses various poetic forms from an 8 word acrostic to Haiku to rhyming quatrains and couplets. Lewis was recently named the 3rd US Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) by the Poetry Foundation. 

I found the poems in this book to be little gems that are full of witty word play, humor and some occasional serious moments. The book is aimed for grades 2-4.












Please Bury Me in the Library

Please bury me in the library

In the clean, well-lighted stacks

Of Novels, History, Poetry

Right next to the Paperbacks.

Where the Kids's Books dance

With True Romance

And the Dictionary dozes.

Please bury me in the library

With a dozen long-stemmed proses.

Way back by a rack of Magazines,

I won't be sad too often, 

If they bury me in the library

With Bookworms in my coffin.

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Chicken and Black Bean Stuffed Burritos

Adapted from Cooking Light December 2010

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup water
• 2 TB. fresh lime juice
• ¼ tsp. ground cumin
• 1/4 tsp. chili powder
• ¼ tsp. pepper
• 2 cups shredded cooked chicken-use deli chicken as a time saver
• 1/3 cup sliced green onion
• 3/4 cup black beans rinsed and drained
• ½ cup salsa
• ½ cup refried beans
• 4 flour tortillas (try whole wheat which gives it a unique flavor)
• 1-1/2 cup Colby-Jack cheese grated
• optional add in 1 cup of corn with bean mixture 

Directions:

• Bring first 5 ingredients to boil
• Stir in shredded chicken
• Combine beans, salsa, onions, and refried beans
• On each tortilla spread down center, bean mixture and then chicken mixture
• Sprinkle cheese over this mixture and roll flour tortilla up. Secure in place with a toothpick
• Roll each tortilla in a piece of foil and place on a baking sheet
• Cook 15-20 minutes at 350
• Options for topping:guacamole sauce, lite sour cream, cilantro, prepared salsa