Author: Charles Manske
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412062365
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Heartfelt poems and short stories from an era of a hard day's work and a simple life.

Author: Charles Manske
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781412237468
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

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These poems and short stories are from an era of a hard day's work and a simple life. Subjects include children, family, love, legends, politics, westerns, and war stories. Most pertain to real life and you will either nod your head in understanding, laugh, or even cry. Written by a proud member of the Greatest Generation.

Author: Moira Andrew
Publisher: Folens Limited
ISBN: 9780947882327
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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A collection of poems on popular themes familiar to young children. Photocopiable and illustrated, the poems provide opportunities for class discussion, for poetry writing by the children, and display of their work.

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439104859
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women." In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.

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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014139594X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.

Author: Kenn Nesbitt
Publisher: Purple Room Publishing
ISBN: 098837630X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Kids love Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry! With their rollicking rhythms, playful rhymes, and mischievous twists, kids can't stop reading these poems. The Armpit of Doom includes seventy new poems about crazy characters, funny families, peculiar pets, comical creatures, and much, much more.

Author: Pauline Greenhill
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773506978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Ontario is not a homogeneous culture, but rather a conglomerate of ethnic cultures and rural and urban populations. In True Poetry: Traditional and Popular Verse in Ontario, Pauline Greenhill describes and evaluates the significance of folk verse, suggesting that it provides a method for creating community solidarity and communicating cultural values and expectations.

Author: Edaimaruthour Ki Manjula
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Krishnamurthy (a) Kittu lives in a multistoried apartment at Chennai. A retired Tamil teacher, settled in a remote village, after having lost his wife, moved to his daughter’s home at Chennai. Kittu grandpa is fondly addressed by the children in the apartments as ‘Story Grandpa’ as he used to gather children on Sundays and tell interesting stories with an apparent moral in each and every story. The children, who are generally saddled to mobiles, televisions, video games etc., shun them for a while to surround the grandpa and listen to his mesmerizing stories. In addition to story-telling he used sing songs and requests the children also to sing, dance and play. To keep them aware of green environment he encourages them to plant saplings. His stories were also filled with humor coupled with a touch of humanity. The stories unfolded by Grandpa form the rest of the book.

Author: Ashley Wolff
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1582462526
Category : Grandfathers
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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This book celebrates the special names that children call their grandparents (some culturally based, some wonderfully made up) and features the unique activities they do together. Full color.

Author: Charles Avery
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595213588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A series of stories put together to make you laugh and reflect on the good things in life. Many of the stories are true in nature, telling of the comical things said and done by kids and grandkids as they were growing up. There is also a mixture of fiction and some stories about the author's thoughts as he travels to and fro. Hunters and fishermen will enjoy the fiction. Moms will recognize such things as an occasional toad in the jeans pockets. Nature lovers will enjoy the lines about the wind, clouds, and trees. Most of these stories are written to ease the stress of daily life. If you take the time to read two stories a day for a month, see how they may start or end your day with a laugh, and at the end of the month, you may be less stressed out.