1. Aileen Fisher
By Stephanie Wages

2. Aileen Fisher
"My first and chief love in writing is
writing children's verse."

3. Facts about Aileen
 American Poet
 Over 100 Award Winning Books
 September 9, 1906
 Iron River, Michigan
 BA in Journalism in 1927
 Chicago
 Missouri
 Adult Life = Boulder, CO
 December 2, 2002

4. Fun Facts
 1st Poem Child Life
 Fall 1927
 Director of the Women’s National Journal Register
 Chicago 1928-1931
 Research Assistant for Labor Bureau of the Middle
West
 Chicago 1931-1932
 Freelance Writer
 1932
 1st Book Coffee-Pot Face
 1933
 National Council of Teachers of English
Excellence in Poetry
 1978

5. Types and Themes
 Poetry
 Books
 Picture
 Biblical
 Prose
 Nature
 America
 Biographies
 Plays
 Articles for magazines and journals

6. Writerly Techniques
 Imagery
 Rhyming
 Personification
 Metaphor

7. My Cat Has Eyes of
Sapphire Blue (1973)

8. Feathered Ones and Furry
(1979)

9. A Lantern in the Window
(1957)

10. Going Barefoot (1960)

11. The Story
Goes On
(2005)

12. The Story
of Easter
(1998)

13. Other Works by Aileen Fisher
 The Coffee-Pot Face
(1933)
 I Heard a Bluebird Sing
(2002)
 In the Woods, In the
Meadow, In the Sky
(1962)
 In the Middle of the
Night (1965)

14. Classroom Use
 Lessons about
 Nature
 Seasons
 Celebrations
 Animals
 Famous People
 Grade Level
 Varies on Text
 Elementary

15. Works Cited
 http://poetryatplay.org/2011/10/01/poet-
of-the-week-aileen-fisher-2/
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/boo
ks/aileen-fisher-96-prolific-author-of-
children-s-books.html
 http://theartofchildrenspicturebooks.blogs
pot.com/2011/05/going-barefoot.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Fisher

16. Aileen Fisher
By Stephanie Wages