Ted Scheu

Ted Scheu (rhymes with "poetry guy") is a celebrated (by his dog) children's poet from Middlebury, Vermont, who considers himself to be a really big kid with gray hair--say 8 or 9 years old max. As a result, he captures kids' voices in verse better than just about any poet for kids on the planet. Ted is also a teacher who visits over 60 schools around the world each year helping kids find their own poetic voices.

Ted's poems are published in over a dozen and a half books in the US and UK--mostly in anthologies from Little Brown, national Geographic, Philomel, and Meadowbrook Press in the US, and Macmillan, Scholastic, and Hodder in the UK.

His own collections (Ted calls them his "Giggle Hexalogy") include a book of family poems called "I Froze My Mother," another of school verse called "I Tickled My Teachers," a sports poem collection called "I Threw My Brother Out," a book of school poems for a slightly younger audience called “Now I Know My ZBCs,” Ted's 'greatest hits' collection called, "Getting the Best of Me," and lastly but not leastly, his tribute to teachers called, "Someday I'll Be a Teacher," all published by Young Poets' Press. These six collections each contain roughly 60 hilariously honest poems about life as seen through the eyes of kids (Ted's kid-eyes), and they are illustrated breathtakingly by full-page black and white photos of children, by Peter Lourie of Weybridge, VT. Ted's joys in life (besides writing and reading poems) are playing in the outdoors with family and friends, riding his bike, eating cereal with too much milk, like any kid his age, and traveling the world, which he does a lot as a visiting author. Learn more at his web site: www.poetryguy.com.

Ted's latest is a stunningly sleepy and fun going-to-bed book for all ages called, "Night-night, Body." It combines Ted's sweetly-rolling rhymes with breathtakingly fun illustrations from Pete Gergely--all promising to send you (or your listeners) smilingly off to Snoozeville. This new picture book promises to be your new fav on your bedside table. The book's website is www.nightnightbody.com Published by Beaver's Pond Press, 2022.