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A Family of Poems |
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Caroline Kennedy |
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Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal introductions written by Caroline herself, and beautiful new original artwork by award-winning artist, Jon J Muth, this collection is sure to become a family favorite for years to come. |
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Poetry Speaks to Children with CD (Audio) |
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Elise Paschen |
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Grade 3-8–A fine, basic collection. Approximately half of the 97 selections are read or performed on the accompanying CD. The book provides a mix of adult writers (Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Billy Collins, among others) and those whose work is specifically for children, such as X. J. Kennedy and Mary Ann Hoberman. Topics include childhood, animals, nonsense poems, and humor (including C. K. Williams's Gas, which dwells on the fact that FARTING IS FORBIDDEN!). The three illustrators have captured the different tones of the selections, from a comic portrait of the Jabberwock slayer wearing a colander and wielding a plunger and the wailing children in William Stafford's First Grade, to the moving paintings of a girl with flowers echoing the natural images of James Berry's Okay, Brown Girl, Okay. The CD... |
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Please Bury Me in the Library |
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J. Patrick Lewis, Kyle M. Stone (Illustrator) |
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Grade 2-5–A semi-swell collection of 16 poems celebrating books, reading, language, and libraries. Subjects range from Otto the Flea (who writes, of course, his "Ottobiography") to "The Big-Word Girl" (who takes her Webster's to the movies) to "Great, Good, Bad" books ("A bad book owes to many trees/A forest of apologies"). The brief selections encompass various forms, from an eight-word acrostic to haiku to rhyming quatrains and couplets. The tone is generally light, with the last few entries turning more to wonder and metaphor ("A good book is a kind/Of person with a mind/Of her own..."). Usually printed one per spread, the poems are accompanied by richly dark artwork. The thickly applied acrylic paint and mixed-media illustrations are sometimes reminiscent of the work of David Shannon, with a... |
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Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
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Dr. Seuss |
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Inspirational yet honest, and always rhythmically rollicking, Oh, the Places You'll Go! is a perfect sendoff for children, 1 to 100, entering any new phase of their lives. Kindergartners, graduate students, newlyweds, newly employeds--all will glean shiny pearls of wisdom about the big, bountiful future. The incomparable Dr. Seuss rejoices in the potential everyone has to fulfill their wildest dreams: "You'll be on your way up! / You'll be seeing great sights! / You'll join the high fliers / who soar to high heights." At the same time, he won't delude the starry-eyed upstart about the pitfalls of life: "You can get all hung up / in a prickle-ly perch. / And your gang will fly on. / You'll be left in a Lurch." But fear not! Dr. Seuss, with his inimitable illustrations and exhilarating rhymes, is... |
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A Treasury of Best-Loved Children's Poetry |
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Robin Lawrie (Illustrator) |
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Allow your imagination to run wild! This wonderful collection of over sixty best loved poems comes from poets including Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth and many more. Enchanting illustrations, that transport readers to a world of tigers, fairies and monsters, make this a treasury to be enjoyed by children of all ages.
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Works for Children and Young Adults |
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Langston Hughes |
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0826214983 |
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Gilead |
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Marilynne Robinson |
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031242440X |
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In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzards's return, 22 years after The Transit of Venus, it was worth the long wait. Books such as these take time, and thought, and a certain kind of genius. There are no invidious comparisons to be made. Robinson's books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both. The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an... |
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A Light in the Attic |
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Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) |
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Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?... Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel. From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.
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Wishes, Lies, and Dreams |
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Kenneth Koch |
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0060955090 |
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Herbert Kohl, Saturday Review
"Perhaps the best book I have read portraying the joy and excitement young people experience when writing in a happy place where people care about their works...The ideas Koch uses are good. I've tried them with my writing classes, and they work."
Allen Wiggins, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"I wish every grade school teacher would run out and read Kenneth Koch's Wishes, Lies, and Dreams. If many of them took Koch's advice seriously we would have at the very least a poetry revolution, not to mention the possibility that a lot of kids would start having a good time in school."
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One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children |
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Michael Harrison |
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0192761900 |
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Grade 6 Up-An outstanding collection. Instead of presenting more of the same literal, singsong poems for children, the editors mine the works of the last century to provide readers with a thematically arranged book of verse that they will be able to read and understand now, but will also think about for many years to come. Although most of the poems in this sophisticated collection will be accessible to youngsters, many of them weren't actually written for children, such as T. S. Eliot's "Preludes," Sylvia Plath's "Dialogue between Ghost and Priest," and Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb." The compilers do not shy away from death or unhappiness. For example, under the section entitled "Childhood," they offer the usual poems describing idealized memories but also include Berlie Doherty's "Playgrounds," a... |
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The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud |
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Janet Schulman |
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Believe it or not, 44 complete read-aloud classics and future classics--from Goodnight Moon to Stellaluna--are packed in this remarkably svelte, positively historic anthology. Flipping through the 308 pages of The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury is like browsing a photo album of beloved friends and family. The familiar faces of Curious George and Ferdinand the Bull peer earnestly from the pages, and scenes from Madeline and Millions of Cats resonate as if you just experienced them yesterday. Think of the advantages of carrying this book on a vacation instead of a suitcase of single titles! (Your kids can always revisit their dog-eared hardcovers when they get home.) This impressive collection of concept books, wordless books, picture books, and read-aloud stories was artfully compiled by longtime children's book... |
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children |
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Jack Prelutsky |
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children was recognized upon its publication in 1983 as an invaluable collection--a modern classic--and it has not since been surpassed. Five hundred poems, selected by poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky, are divided into broad subject areas such as nature, seasons, living things, children, and home. The poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks populate the book's pages, while Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Shel Silverstein ensure that the collection delights even the most reluctant readers of rhyme. Playground chants, anonymous rhymes, scary poems, silly verse, and even some sad strains are carefully indexed by title, author, first line, and subject. With illustrations of cheerful,... |
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The Night Before Kindergarten |
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Natasha Wing (Illustrator), Julie Durrell (Illustrator) |
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'Twas the night before kindergarten, and as they prepared,
kids were excited,
and a little bit scared.
It's the first day of school! Join the kids as they prepare for kindergarten, packing school supplies, posing for pictures, and the hardest part of all-saying goodbye to Mom and Dad. But maybe it won't be so hard once they discover just how much fun kindergarten really is! Colorful illustrations illuminate this uplifting takeoff on the classic Clement C. Moore Christmas poem.
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When a group of children prepares for and experiences the first day of kindergarten, the parents are the ones who have trouble adjusting.
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Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children |
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Davida Adedjouma (Editor) |
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When children give voice to their own feelings, the result can be magical. This touching and inspiring collection of poems by African-American children helps prove that point. Edited by Davida Adedjouma and lovingly illustrated by Gregory Christie, these 20 poems came out of a series of writing workshops with children who were encouraged to celebrate their lives, joys, influences and hopes. The results are pure poetry, honest, wise and encouraging: "Black is the color of some people/but people are different/differences are good because/no one else says the/same things as you." Not only will children find the poems interesting, they may just be inspired to explore their own feelings. All ages.
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children |
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Jack Prelutsky |
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children was recognized upon its publication in 1983 as an invaluable collection--a modern classic--and it has not since been surpassed. Five hundred poems, selected by poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky, are divided into broad subject areas such as nature, seasons, living things, children, and home. The poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks populate the book's pages, while Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Shel Silverstein ensure that the collection delights even the most reluctant readers of rhyme. Playground chants, anonymous rhymes, scary poems, silly verse, and even some sad strains are carefully indexed by title, author, first line, and subject. With illustrations of cheerful,... |
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Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost (Poetry For Young People) |
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Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Henri Sorensen (Illustrator) |
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Grade 3 Up?Frost satisfies in every way; Dickinson does not. Bolin's four-page introduction describes and explains Emily Dickinson's odd life style and creative productivity. This is followed by 36 poems loosely arranged by the topics of hope, death, and poetry. This organization, however, is not readily apparent; nor is the reasoning behind defining some words (gale, bog, shanties, etc.) and not others (dimity, helmsman, countenance). An index of first lines and little else will help readers searching for poems by subject. The prettily colored watercolors are flat and stylized, and seem better suited to nursery rhymes than Dickinson's insightful and witty glimpses of an entire universe in a blade of grass or of "paradise" gathered by "narrow hands." Frost contains a three-page overview of the poet's life,... |
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20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury |
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Selected by Jack Prelutsky |
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"I objurgate the centipede,/ A bug we do not really need," writes Ogden Nash. Carl Sandburg hums and strums, while pages later, William Jay Smith compares a toaster to a silver-scaled dragon. And of course A.A. Milne must add his two cents' worth, "tiddely pom, tiddely pom." What a labor of love! Children's poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky has collected 211 of his favorite poems by 137 poets, representing the best of verse from each decade of the 20th century. "Until this century, most children's poetry was either syrupy sweet or overblown and didactic, and tended to talk down to its readers," Prelutsky writes in his introduction. "Contemporary children's poets have thrown all that condescension and moralizing out the window, and write with today's real child in mind." What's in this anthology for today's child? Food... |
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Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) |
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Joyce Sidman, Beckie Prange (Illustrator) |
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Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 5-Seasons set the stage for this celebration of the diverse life of ponds. The book begins with the poem, "Listen for Me," in which spring peepers wake from their winter hibernation and sing out, "Listen for me on a spring night,/on a wet night,/on a rainy night./…Listen for me tonight, tonight,/and I'll sing you to sleep." The melodic verse continues through summer with a cumulative poem that highlights the food chain of a pond, cattails in all seasons, and late fall when a painted turtle settles into the mud. Sidman employs several poetic forms, such as haiku and rhymed and unrhymed verse, and varied line structure, and her arrangement of the 11 poems is natural and exact. Each one is accompanied by a paragraph that provides scientific information about a specific... |
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Read My Mind |
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Fred Sedgwick |
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Book Description
Fred Sedgwick argues that through poetry, children can learn about the whole curriculum, including history and science. The book discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination. Case studies are used to show how children learn about themselves - first, their bodies, and second, their thoughts and emotions - through the writing of poetry. It then considers how children learn about their environment and the relationship between themselves and their environment. Finally, he discusses his techniques for getting children to write and provides recommendations for further reading.
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook |
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Shel Silverstein |
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Circle Time Poetry Math |
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Jodi Simpson |
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043952976X |
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Help little learners build math vocabulary and more using these original poems on key math concepts. The author shares creative ideas from her own classroom: inviting ways to present each poem during circle time; discussion starters; shared reading, writing, and art activities; literature links; interactive reproducibles; and much more.
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Poetry for Young People: William Carlos Williams (Poetry For Young People) |
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Christopher MacGowan (Editor), Robert Crockett (Illustrator) |
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Gr. 6-12. The introduction and commentary that MacGowan, a Williams scholar, provides not only fills in biographical details but expertly illuminates the craft and sensibility behind these 31 deceptively simple imagist poems. Along with well-known references to that red wheelbarrow and the "figure 5 / in gold / on a red / firetruck," the brief selections include a passage from Williams' magnum opus Paterson, observations of seasons and weather, personal reflections, and vivid evocations of flowers, plums, and other everyday, but suddenly somehow uncommon, articles. Capturing the poems' pervasive lyricism, Crockett (a pseudonym) illustrates each with literal, if hazy, figures, items, and landscapes. Despite its simple language and clear imagery, Williams' poetry is not widely available to young readers. This... |
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Circle Time Poetry Science |
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Jodi Simpson |
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Help little learners build science vocabulary and more using these original poems on key science topics. The author shares creative ideas from her own classroom: inviting ways to present each poem during circle time; discussion starters; shared reading, writing, and art activities; literature links; interactive reproducibles; and much more.
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A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words that Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry |
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Michael Driscoll |
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Grade 4-8-There are plenty of collections of children's poetry available, but none like this one. The first section discusses the different forms the genre takes: nursery rhyme, narrative verse, ballad, free verse, pastoral, etc. Driscoll offers a clear explanation of each type and defines any difficult, associated vocabulary. Commentary on each example and a note on where to find the recording on the accompanying CD is provided for each selection. The second section covers individual poets from Homer to Maya Angelou and offers at least one example or excerpt from each writer's work. The brief introductions to the forms and poets are lively and often amusing. Readers will find the varied layouts and warm cartoon watercolors inviting. On the CD, a professional actor reads the selections; the music or sound... |
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Rainbows, Head Lice, and Pea-Green Tile: Poems in the Voice of the Classroom Teacher |
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Brod Bagert, Kim Doner (Illustrator) |
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For all teachers: It's your life told here, dear teacher, with all its glories, warts, joys, and heartaches. The poems of Brod Bagert, America's performance poet, chronicle the frustrations of the profession, as well as their transformation into the unexpected victories that make it all worthwhile. The cast of characters includes the second grade from hell, that hopeless, control-freak-of-a-colleague, the faculty restroom, the custodian, Rambo teacher, and even the cafeteria food. Brod speaks in the voice of the classroom teacher, and the voice rings true. Here's a perfect gift - for yourself or for a teacher you love. Illustrated by illustrator/author Kim Doner. Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Illustrated Book.
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