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"In this book you'll find twelve special celebrations for each month and twelve poems for "Birthdays & Baby Days"--so get ready to have a Poetry PARTY! What are your favorite holidays? If you like hats, or pets, or getting letters, or riding your bike, or eating cookies, or solving puzzles, or reading, or playing video games al day long ... you'll find a bunch of days to celebrate. Plus poems for Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving & more!"--Page...

From the Children's Poet Laureate comes a year-round ode to wacky holidays just begging to be celebrated.

In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." Read by the poet at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House on December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou's celebration of the "Glad Season"...

"The largest single anthology of Jane Yolen's poetry, containing more than one hundred poems for all occasions--with fun black-and-white art throughout. For the first time, legendary author Jane Yolen gathers the largest single anthology of her poetry celebrating childhood. At home or at school, playing sports or practicing music, enjoying the holidays or delighting in each season, Jane Yolen's masterful collection shows just how lively it is to be...

A collection of poems by a variety of authors celebrating the various aspects of Christmas.

The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-Ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming. To his amazement, Christmas comes anyway, and the Grinch discovers the true meaning of the holiday.

"A witch, a bat, a skeleton, a jack-o'-lantern, a ghost, a black cat, a spider, an owl, and a scarecrow are all hiding in the pages of this clever Halloween-themed book. Deanna Caswell's playful haiku cleverly hint at the creatures revealed after each turn of the page while Bob Shea's bright illustrations capture the scary silliness"--

Do animals celebrate Valentine's Day? Nobody knows for sure. But this book imagines how some of them declare their love, affection, or friendship any day of the year.

A cookbook celebrating bounty and beauty in the Pacific Northwest and one of the top ten best-sellers in the area during the 1996 holidays. Skagit Valley Fare has full-color reproductions of paintings by local artists, and poetry by local writers. The recipes are all from excellent cooks, restaurants and bed and breakfasts, and the book has a layflat binding which allows it to remain open on the kitchen counter without propping.

"In Calef Brown's poem "We Go Together," he jubilantly decrees: "We go together / like fingers and thumbs. / Basses and drums. / Pastries and crumbs." In "You Are Two (Kiwis)," he muses, "I am quite frequently, / reminded by thee / of a kiwi. / Either kind." Yes, silliness and sentimentality have free rein in this "curious selection" of childlike poems about love and friendship, each accompanied by an equally absurd, stylized acrylic painting. Like...