I’m hosting the Third Carnival of Children’s Literature here at Semicolon next week, but some of my readers seem to be a little bit confused about what a blog carnival is. So, I’ll endeavor to explain. A blog carnival is a round-up of links to blog posts from all over the internet on a specific topic. The subject for this carnival is children’s literature, specifically poetry. If you have written anything on your blog about children’s literature in general or about poetry for children in specific, you email me the URL of your blog,the name of your blog, the URL of your post, and a brief description of your post. (Example: In this post, I wrote about the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and about sharing it with children.)

I’ll put links to all the posts I receive together into one mega-post, and you can hop on over to Semicolon on April 3rd, point and click and read your way through a multitude of posts all about children and literature.

Is that as clear as mud? If you’re still confused, go right now to these past carnivals and see for yourself how it works.

First Carnival of Children’s Literature at Here in the Bonnie Glen by Melissa Wiley, our initiator and fearless leader. Email Melissa if you’re interested in hosting the carnival in future months.

Second Carnival of Children’s Literature at Chicken Spaghetti by Susan.

For this Third Carnival of Children’s Literature, email all submissions to me at sherryDOTearlyATgmailDOTcom by 6 PM, Saturday, April 1st. Again, you should include the URL of your post, the title of the post, the URL of your blog, and a short description or teaser telling about the post you’ve submitted. Please include the words “third carnival of children’s literature” in the subject line of your email.