1. AILEEN LUCIA FISHER

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.

3. HERE IS A SHORT
SNIPPET OF HER
WRITING!

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.”

5. Themes:
• Animals
• Nature
• Plants
• Biographies

6. Her poetry is lyrical

7. She is inspired
from the world
around her.

8. Her writing can be simple but she makes it
playful

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.