Moving Day (poetry collection)

Moving Day is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, illustrated by Jennifer Emery.

Thirty-four short free verse poems that express the feelings of a twelve-year-old boy moving from Massachusetts to Ohio.

Emery's accompanying watercolor illustrations are like flashes of family history viewed through hand-swiped frost on windows of memory.

"[1] Mary Jean Smith in her review for School Library Journal said that "like shards of glass, Emery's pencil drawings with their watercolor washes mirror the loss and longing in these poems."

and she describes the book as "excellent in relation to other titles on the same subject or in the same genre"[2] Sylvia M. Vardell in her book Poetry People said that "the poems are loosely connected one to another to reveal the grieving process of separating from the familiar and slowly establishing new roots in a new place."