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Everything about Ragweed & Poppy

Book #2 in the Pop­py series, Rag­weed & Pop­py, was the last sto­ry writ­ten, first pub­lished in 2020. You’ve writ­ten to say how delight­ed you are with this new sto­ry. Here’s a song, a sam­ple chap­ter, a teach­ing guide, and sev­er­al videos to add to your enjoy­ment of this book.

Ragweed & Poppy
Rag­weed & Poppy

Behind the story

The ori­gins of Pop­py, and the Pop­py series can be found on my blog in a post dat­ed June 13, 2017.

If you read that post and the oth­er posts about the sequen­tial books, you’ll note that I nev­er intend­ed to write a series, that even as they appeared they were not writ­ten in sequence. More­over, that first pop­py book appeared in 1985. In oth­er words, the series began twen­ty-five years ago. That’s a stretch. read more

Resources

Read a sam­ple.

Teach­ing guide for all the Pop­py books

Learn more about the illus­tra­tor of all sev­en Pop­py books, Bri­an Floca

Lis­ten

Lis­ten to Avi read from the oth­er six Pop­py books.

Lis­ten to “A Mouse Will A Rov­ing Go,” com­posed and record­ed by my son Shaun and his family.

Watch these videos

The Pop­py books, in order by the telling of the story

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