My Own Song and Other Poems To Groove To is published by Boyds Mills Press and available Fall 1997. The sequel to Poems That Sing To You, it includes a roster of poets whose voices sing like the joys of music. This jumping, thumping, and cymbal crashing collection takes young readers "way down in the music". Way down in the music there is the place where four lads from Liverpool meet canoe dancers from Jamaica; it's where you'll sing "The Cuckoo Song" and "The Song of Wonder". This celebration of music and dance includes poems by John Ciardi, Eloise Greenfield, William Blake, X.J. Kennedy, Monica Gunning, Jane Yolen, James Weldon Johnson, and Rebecca Kai Dotlich.

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"Strickland's spirited anthology of poetry invites children daily to encounter music and its language even comparing these poems--serious, silly, meditative or buoyant--to life's necessities ... A pleasurable work! Delightful poetic lifts! An unearthed treasure for music teachers!"

- Catholic Library World

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"The works capture the gamut of musical experiences and will be enjoyed and appreciated by children and young adults from all backgrounds."

- Booklist

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"My Own Song screams to be read aloud and enjoyed."

-Southeastern Pa. School Library Book Reviewers

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"Kids will enjoy the emotional diversity of these poems about music ... these poems are groovy."

- Children's Bookshelf/Copley News Service