Poetry for young people
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MoonDance
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Kids will discover the poetry of Robert Frost in this installment in the Poetry for Kids series. Professor, poet, novelist, and Frost biographer Jay Parini has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families, including "Mending Wall," "Birches," "The Road Not Taken," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and many more of Frost's favorite and most accessible works"--
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English
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Professor and scholar Kate Benzel has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families. Carl Sandburg divides the poems into poems about people, and poems about people. You'll find classics including "Young Bullfrogs," "Shenandoah", "Jazz Fantasia", "Fog", and 31 more of Sandburg's favorite and most accessible works. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Robert Crawford. This gentle introduction includes...
3) Walt Whitman
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English
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Carefully chosen for kids, 35 illustrated poems are presented and explained by New York University professor Karen Karbenier, PhD, a Whitman expert. Walt Whitman includes enlightening commentary for each poem, definitions of key words, and a foreword by the expert. Vibrant illustrations invigorate the poetry. Starting off with "I Hear America Singing," the collection includes excerpts from "Song of Myself," "O Captain! My Captain!," poems from Leaves...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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With fantastic characters and enchanting language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands children have always loved to visit. These 26 selections from his classic works have never lost their fascination. "Softly realistic, period-style watercolors effectively highlight the mood of each selection. . . . vocabulary or context notes on just about every page, and the book opens with a brief but illuminating biography."--"School Library Journal. "The...
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English
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A collection of fiction and nonfiction by the Scottish author of Treasure Island, selected by two acclaimed Argentinian writers.
First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares-a collection of their favorite works of nonfiction, short stories, and fables. The themes-integrity, intellectual and imaginative truth,...
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Edward Lear
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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William Carlos Williams
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William Wordsworth
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American poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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English
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William Blake's highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London. Although Blake's works were ignored or dismissed until long after his death, their directness and unsentimental simplicity will strike a chord with many today.
