Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328521761
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet’s complete works for children—with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg. As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children’s literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga Stories, explore farms, trains and other typical locales as the clever characters discover the magic of the Midwest. This volume includes all five of Carl Sandburg’s books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up.
The Sandburg Treasury
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328521761
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet’s complete works for children—with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg. As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children’s literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga Stories, explore farms, trains and other typical locales as the clever characters discover the magic of the Midwest. This volume includes all five of Carl Sandburg’s books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328521761
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet’s complete works for children—with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg. As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children’s literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga Stories, explore farms, trains and other typical locales as the clever characters discover the magic of the Midwest. This volume includes all five of Carl Sandburg’s books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up.
A Treasury of American Folklore
Author: Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
The Sandburg Treasury
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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A Treasury of Poems
Author:
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9781578660421
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. Thios volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9781578660421
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. Thios volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
Words with Wings
Author: Belinda Rochelle
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
101 Great American Poems
Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110265
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110265
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems
Author: Louis Phillips
Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
ISBN: 9780375426018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An anthology of poems that have proved perenially popular includes more contemporary voices in its third edition.
Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
ISBN: 9780375426018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An anthology of poems that have proved perenially popular includes more contemporary voices in its third edition.
A Treasury of American Folklore
Author: Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A collection of folklore, including an index of authors, titles, and first lines of songs and an index of subjects and names.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A collection of folklore, including an index of authors, titles, and first lines of songs and an index of subjects and names.
A Treasury of Poetry for Young People
Author: Frances Schoonmaker
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806919560
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Combine the poetry of six of America's finest poets with specifically commissioned illustrations from its finest artists and you get a deluxe treasury of more than 150 classic works from the pen of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. As you and your child read each poem together, you'll both feel as if a magical world - sometimes light and charming, sometimes dark and spooky - has come to life through the remarkable harmony between word and image. And with a biography of each poet, commentary and definitions for the harder vocabulary, you'll be able to help youngsters appreciate the beauty of the verse's sound and rhythm and understand what is being said between the lines. Nothing is better for inspiring a lifetime love of poetry, of language and of reading.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806919560
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Combine the poetry of six of America's finest poets with specifically commissioned illustrations from its finest artists and you get a deluxe treasury of more than 150 classic works from the pen of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. As you and your child read each poem together, you'll both feel as if a magical world - sometimes light and charming, sometimes dark and spooky - has come to life through the remarkable harmony between word and image. And with a biography of each poet, commentary and definitions for the harder vocabulary, you'll be able to help youngsters appreciate the beauty of the verse's sound and rhythm and understand what is being said between the lines. Nothing is better for inspiring a lifetime love of poetry, of language and of reading.
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.