Tubby & Coo's Mid-City Bookshop is pleased to present a Children’s Poetry Month panel with authors Leslie Bulion and Charles R. Smith Jr. to discuss teir newest releases Serengeti and Song for Jimi. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast.

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Leslie Bulion, a virtuoso science poet, has created a portrait of the rainy season on East Africa’s southern Serengeti Plain, offering young readers a compelling look at an ecosystem in motion. Using a series of interconnected verses inspired by an East African Swahili poem form—the utendi—Bulion’s cadences and rhythmic lines mimic the web of life in the Serengeti, following the great migration of wildebeest, zebras, and others into and then out of the vast short-grass plain.

Jimi Hendrix's talent was epic, and so is this fifty-six-page lyrical account of his life. Written as a series of verses, this unique mix of rhythm and rhyme captures the essence of the rock icon and his struggle to live life on his own terms. From his turbulent childhood through his epical appearance at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals, Charles R. Smith Jr. covers it all in this rich account of a singular life, accompanied by the psychedelic splendor of Edel Rodriguez's acid-tinged artwork.

Leslie Bulion has graduate degrees in oceanography and social work. She has written parenting and education articles and is the author of several children's books.

Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning children's book author, photographer and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Children's Poetry Month Panel With Leslie Bulion & Charles R. Smith Jr.