Poetry Friday Roundup is hosted today at Susan Writes, the blog of Susan Taylor Brown.

My selection is Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon: Poem, written by Ruth Forman with illustrations by Cbabi Bayoc. This illustrated poem's setting is a summer in a South Philadelphia brownstone neighborhood where children celebrate the fun to be had even when you don't have a front or back yard.

Here is a link to the author reading from her book on NPR.

Friday's Famous First: Can you name the title and author of this first line? "Would Gracie-the-cat be jealous if the Pyes got another pet - a dog?"