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A 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book

Featured in UK’s Bright Ideas Education Consultancy: Watch the video here!

Early Praise for I’m Feeling Blue, Too!

“What do you get when you take a morsel of midnight, a pinch of sky, a splash of sea, a flower petal, a bee-kissed mulberry, the hum of blue firs, and a season with lollipops and a brave knight? . . . .Maddox leads young readers across mood-lifting, make-believe landscapes. Feeling blue has never felt so good!”—David L. Harrison, author of After Dark: Poems about Nocturnal Animals

“Blast off into the color blue with bubbles, blueberries, birds, and a bounce on a trampoline! Inside this imaginative picture book, young readers will explore the many dimensions of blue and be inspired to paint their own world in a favorite color.” —Jacqueline Jules, author of Tag Your Dreams: Poems of Play and Persistence

TASTIEST REVIEW EVER HERE! “…Who wouldn’t be cheered and motivated by such upbeat, toe-tapping, finger-snapping, alliterative, (and yes!) bluesy lines?…Oh, the magic of creative play, the endless adventures that await as we drift into sleep laden dreamworlds “across landscapes of make-believe!”…Marjorie’s poems are a joy to read aloud with their jaunty rhythms, wordplay, pleasing cadences, sensory detail, and clever use of poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. Readers and budding writers will love the variety of poetic forms, especially the concrete poems: mini word morsels resembling blueberries floating on air, a poem shaped like a large blossom/bouquet featuring the scientific names of blue flowers (with another poem hidden within)….I’m Feeling Blue, Too! is a fabulous mentor text for poets of all ages who’d like to explore their own favorite colors, in concrete or abstract form, word painting real and/or imagined worlds in which to dwell….Score a copy of this book soon if you’d like to taste a morsel of midnight, wear you favorite shade of warmth, bounce high to the azure sky, travel in a bubble, float into an ocean of fantasy. When you fully embrace blue, you can swim in it, hear the hum and whistle of it, breathe in the fragrance of it, feel creatively empowered by it, or dwell in its high fantasy night. Feeling blue, inside and out, from here to there, and back again. Now how’s that for a case of the feel-good blues? Bye bye doldrums…”–Jama’s Alphabet Soup

Book launch for Inside Out and I’m Feeling Blue, Too! here!

Up at Connecting the Dots, the children’s literature blog by award-winning author David L. Harrison!

LISTEN HERE ON ZOOM TO THIS SESSION WITH AUTHOR MARJORIE MADDOX AND ILLUSTRATOR PHILIP HUBER: Meet the Children’s Author and the Illustrator, Marjorie Maddox and Philip Huber, as they discuss their new children’s book I’m Feeling Blue, Too! at the Central PA Theatre and Dance Fest, June 19, 2020. The poetic picture book I’m Feeling Blue, Too! turns the “can’t do nothin’” blues into an exciting exploration of color. Climb inside a spinning bubble, grab some sky from high above a trampoline, dive into the swirling ocean waves, stack a tower of dreams, and ride far into the night with a courageous knight. In this session, author Marjorie Maddox and illustrator Philip Huber will read from, discuss, and answer questions about the creation of their new children's book I'm Feeling Blue, Too!

Zoom video for LHU Alumni Association

A reading from I’m Feeling Blue, Too! for 10,000 Poets for Change’s 2020 Read a Poem to a Child Program!

Interview with Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme!

Find out the answers to these questions—and more!

Welcome back, Marjorie! It’s so nice to chat with you about a book that’s so different from the one we spotlighted in April. Unlike most picture books, the illustrations for Blue were done first…can you explain the genesis for the project and how you came to be a part of it?

How long did it take to figure out how you wanted to approach the manuscript, insofar as deciding on a loose narrative and how you wanted to organize the text?

Philip Huber’s scratchboard illustrations harken back to a more classic style of illustration than we often see today…was there a reason he chose that medium, and do you feel that made a difference in how you responded?

The Trampoline, Flower, and Building Blocks spreads are great examples of the simultaneous energy/action and thoughtfulness that this book offers. Can you tell me your process for writing these three spreads?

AND MORE!