This week's Poetry Friday Roundup is being hosted by Wild Rose Reader. Drop by and enjoy all the links.

And I hope you are keeping up with Learning the Basics "Chapter One" at a Time at Writers in Residence. Part 3 was posted to day and is an interesting discussion of Adjectives and Adverbs.

Here are Friday's Famous Firsts:

1. "From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything."

2. "My grandfather was a young man when he left his home in Japan and went to see the world."

Can you name the title and author of these two Caldecott Award winning books?