Let's Celebrate!

Let's Celebrate! PDF Author: Debjani Chatterjee
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847804792
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This exciting anthology of poems celebrates festivals all over the world. From Chinese New Year to Carnival, from Thanksgiving to Holi, and from Purnima to Diwali. This book of poetry includes explanations of the festivals at the back of the book, and colorful and atmospheric illustrations by Shirin Adl.

Let's Celebrate!

Let's Celebrate! PDF Author: Debjani Chatterjee
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847804792
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This exciting anthology of poems celebrates festivals all over the world. From Chinese New Year to Carnival, from Thanksgiving to Holi, and from Purnima to Diwali. This book of poetry includes explanations of the festivals at the back of the book, and colorful and atmospheric illustrations by Shirin Adl.

Festival Poems

Festival Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508193177
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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A rich exploration of cultures, this thoughtful collection celebrates diversity and sends a heartfelt message of acceptance. Readers will delight in beautiful poems that capture holidays from around the world, including Eid-ul-Fitr, Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, Holi, and Children's Day. These carefully chosen poems show readers that poetry can express innumerable emotions, such as silliness and reverence. Readers will become familiar with essential poetic devices, such as rhyme and rhythm, while also learning that poetry can take many forms. Heartwarming illustrations correspond with these poems, creating a moving combination of written word and art. This masterfully selected collection honors cultures around the world and features poets such as Celia Warren, John Foster, Brenda Williams, and Judith Nicholls.

The Banished Immortal

The Banished Immortal PDF Author: Ha Jin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524747424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai's verses are still taught to China's schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet's life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet's later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China's history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.

Festival Poems

Festival Poems PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Poems Aloud

Poems Aloud PDF Author: Joseph Coelho
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 0711247684
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Poems are made to read OUT LOUD! A wittily illustrated anthology of poems, designed to be read aloud. 20 poems by the award winning ​Joseph Coelho will arm children with techniques for lifting poetry off the page and performing with confidence. Perfect for confident children and shy readers alike, this book teaches all sorts of clever ways to performing poetry. Children will learn 20 techniques for reading aloud by trying out 20 funny and thoughtful original poems by the much loved and award winning performance poet, Joseph Coelho. There are tongue twisters, poems to project, poems to whisper, poems to make you laugh. There are poems to perform to a whole class and others to whisper in somebody's ear. Richly textured, warm and stylish illustration by Daniel Gray-Barnett bring each page to life. "Poetry for children is dead. Really? Not when there are young poets like Joseph Coelho" ~ Books for Keeps

Watching the Spring Festival

Watching the Spring Festival PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art. Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art.

The Glass Aisle

The Glass Aisle PDF Author: Paul Henry
Publisher: Seren
ISBN: 1781724415
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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"In this virtuoso collection, Paul Henry, poacher-like, tracks the journeys of the heart through landscape, love and loss. He takes his place as one of the most important Welsh poets now writing." – Carol Ann Duffy "This haunting, elegaic collection, about music, and made of music, leaves a reader's mind full of phrases, in both senses – verbal, and tonal – and exactitudes that catch and lodge in the memory." – Gillian Clarke From the sea of the poet's childhood to the stillness of a canal walked in middle age, The Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness, past and present, music and silence. In the book's title poem, a telephone engineer repairs a line that crosses a canal to the site of an old workhouse. Tormented by the voices of former "inmates", he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting free the Victorian ghosts of poacher John Moonlight, lone parent Mary Thomas, and a host of others who haunt the poem's present-day walker. Elsewhere in this moving collection, love poems, elegies and familiar coastline "visitors", Brown Helen, Catrin Sands... define a nineteen-sixties childhood; a long poem, 'The Hesitant Song', "orchestrates silence" while playing "the sea's soft pedal" to convey the loss of a mother's songs. Lyrical and humane in its observations, The Glass Aisle is rich in the hallmarks readers have come to admire in Henry's poetry.

Moon Juice

Moon Juice PDF Author: Kate Wakeling
Publisher: Emma Press Children's Collections
ISBN: 9781910139493
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Kate Wakeling's first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. The poems she writes are always musical, sometimes wistful, and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world.

On the Move

On the Move PDF Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406393705
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Former Children's Laureates Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a personal and uniquely affecting collection of poems about migration. "What you leave behind Won't leave your mind. But home is where you find it. Home is where you find it." Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a landmark new collection, focusing on migration and displacement. Michael's poems are divided into four: in the first series, he draws on his childhood as part of a first-generation Polish family living in London; in the second, on his perception of the War as a young boy; in the third, on his "missing" relatives and the Holocaust; and in the fourth, and final, on global experiences of migration. By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is an anthology with a story to tell and a powerful point to make: "You can only do something now."

TO SPEAK OF HIS GLORY: Poems of Grace and Celebration

TO SPEAK OF HIS GLORY: Poems of Grace and Celebration PDF Author: Melody Ann Lewis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312155914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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"To Speak of His Glory: Poems of Grace and Celebration" is a collection of poems in two parts. The first section contains poems of faith which relate ways that the author, a "cradle Episcopalian", has experienced God at work in her life. The second section is made up of poems about nature--birds and beasts, flowers and trees, passing seasons--all the beauty and glory of creation. The author writes in styles ranging from sonnets to haiku to free verse, with rhymes and without depending on the poem, and makes frequent use of extended metaphor in her attempts to capture a wide variety of subjects and experiences.