2. Aileen Lucia Fisher (1906-2002)
• Born Sept. 9, 1906 in Iron River, Michigan.
• She received her bachelors degree in journalism from the
University of Michigan in 1927.
• She became director of the Women’s National Journalist in
1928.
• She was an American writer of more than a hundred books for
children.
• She thought of herself primarily as a poet and her poems are
frequently used in textbooks.
• In 1978 she won the National Council of Teachers of English
Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
• She died Dec. 02, 2002 in Boulder, Colorado.
4. Fall Wind
Everything is on the run-
willows swishing in the
sun,
branches full of dip and
sway,
falling leaves that race
away,
pine trees tossing on the
hill-
nothing’s quiet, nothing’s
still,
all the sky is full of song:
“Winter’s coming. Won’t
be long.”
9. Published Works
Poetry Collections Fiction
• The Coffee-Pot Face • A Lantern in the Window
• Feathered Ones and Furry • We Went Looking
• You Don’t Look Like Your • Clean as a Whistle
Mother
Non-Fiction
• Timber!: Logging in
Natural History
Michigan
• All on a Mountain Day • Skip
• In the Woods, In the • We Dickens: The Life of
Meadow, In the Sky Emily Dickinson as Seen
• Summer of Little Rain Through the Eyes of Her
Brother Austin
10. Suggested Classroom Use
• Go outside and let students create their own writing based
on the world around them.
• Allow students to create their own poems
• About animals
• About nature
• About plants
• Have students write a short biography of another student or
create their own autobiography.
• Allow students to create an alternative illustration to one of
Aileen Fisher’s books.