Book
Poetry speaks to children
Record details
- ISBN: 1402203292 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781402203299
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Physical Description:
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viii, 104 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) - Publisher: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | First Book / Rita Dove -- Quarrel / Maxine Kumin -- Letter to Bee / Emily Dickinson -- Hurt No Living Thing / Christina D. Rossetti 1894 -- Stopping by woods on a Snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Wolf / Billy Collins -- Tiger who wore white Gloves / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden D. Nash 1971 -- On a flimmering floom you shall ride / Carl Sandburg -- El Chicle / Ana Castillo -- The dentist and the crocodile / Roald Dahl -- Bear Song / Kay Ryan -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Sneeze / Maxine Kumin -- Mrs. Mitchell's Underwear / Dennis Lee -- Okay, brown girl, Okay / James Berry -- Vowel owl (Roger) / John Hollander -- Magic Words / Anonymous Inuit Poet, trans. Ed Field -- Unwritten / W. S. Merwin -- Crayons: Rainbow poem / Jane Yolen -- Gas / C. K. Williams -- Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin -- from Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- Frodo's Song in Bree / J. R. R. Tolkien -- Harjo, Joy / J. R. R. Tolkien -- Eagle Poem Joy / Harjo -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Buffalo song / Anonymous Osage poet -- from "The Elephant's child" / Rudyard D. Kipling 1936 -- Alphabet / Seamus Heaney -- John Smith and his Son, John Smith / Wallace Stevens -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Dinosaur diets / Jane Yolen -- My sister saw a dinosaur / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Joey / Brad Leithauser -- Rabbit / Mary Ann Hoberman -- At last / James Stevenson -- Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Pope, Alexander -- Balloons / William Jay Smith -- Hide and seek / Robert Graves -- Every time I climb a tree / David McCord -- The reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni -- Trips / Nikki Giovanni -- Mommies / Nikki -- Giovanni -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali -- Good luck gold / Janet S. Wong -- The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown -- Why? / James Stevenson -- The Question / Karla Kuskin -- First Grade / William Stafford -- Crying / Galway Kinnell -- Art class / X. J. Kennedy -- How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- Working with mother / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Faery song / W. B. Yeats, d.1939 -- Unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke / translated by Paul Muldoon -- Lion and the lily / Elizabeth Spires -- Hist whist / E.E. Cummings -- Ghost and Jenny Jemina / Lee, Dennis -- From the Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Sheep party / John Fuller -- Jamacian song / James Berry -- Halfway down / A.A. Milne d. 1956 -- Count to ten and we'll be there/ Rita Dove -- Opposite poem 4 / Richard Wilbur -- Opposite poems 7 and 20 / Richard Wilbur -- Custard the dragon / Ogden Nash, d. 1971 -- Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros -- Lies, all lies / William Cole -- Which is the Best? / James Stevenson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer d. 1940 -- Testing Tree, Part 1 / Stanley Kunitz -- Skating in the wind / George, Kristine O'Connell -- Poem for Jesse / Sanchez, Sonia -- To PJ / Sanchez, Sonia -- Valentine / Donald Hall -- Summer / W.D. Snodgrass -- Winter / W.D. Snodgrass -- Sun has a tail / Emanuel di Pasquale -- Knowville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz, d. 1966 -- Tyger / William Blake -- Conversation with a mouse / Robert Bly -- On turning ten / Billy Collins -- How to stay up late / X. J. Kennedy -- Flashlight / X. J. Kennedy -- Maturity / X. J. Kennedy -- Wynken, blynken, and nod / Eugene Field, d. 1895 -- Little / Dorothy Aldis -- Two in Bed - Ross, Abram Bunn -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman --- Land of Counterpane / Robert Lewis Stevenson -- From The Bed Book / Sylvia Plath -- Coming of Teddy Bears / Dennis Lee. |
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| Subject: | Children's poetry, American Children's poetry, English American poetry English poetry |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | JUV 811 PASC 2005 | 274254 | Juv | Available | - |