Research Catalog

Title

Poetry speaks to children / editor, Elise Paschen ; illustrators, Judy Love, Wendy Rasmussen, Paula Zinngrabe Wendland ; advisory editors, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, X.J. Kennedy.

Publication

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paschen, Elise.
• Love, Judy, 1953-
• Rasmussen, Wendy, 1952-
• Wendland, Paula Zinngrabe

Description

viii, 104 p. : col. ill.; 24 x 29 cm. +

Summary

A collection of poems that can be read or listened to with the accompanying CD. The poems on the CD are read by the poets themselves.

Subjects

• American poetry
• English poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102) and index.

Contents

First Book / Rita Dove -- Quarrel / Maxine Kumin -- Letter to Bee / Emily Dickinson -- Hurt No Living Thing / Christina D. Rossetti 1894 -- Stopping by woods on a Snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Wolf / Billy Collins -- Tiger who wore white Gloves / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden D. Nash 1971 -- On a flimmering floom you shall ride / Carl Sandburg -- El Chicle / Ana Castillo -- The dentist and the crocodile / Roald Dahl -- Bear Song / Kay Ryan -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Sneeze / Maxine Kumin -- Mrs. Mitchell's Underwear / Dennis Lee -- Okay, brown girl, Okay / James Berry -- Vowel owl (Roger) / John Hollander -- Magic Words / Anonymous Inuit Poet, trans. Ed Field -- Unwritten / W. S. Merwin -- Crayons: Rainbow poem / Jane Yolen -- Gas / C. K. Williams -- Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin -- from Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- Frodo's Song in Bree / J. R. R. Tolkien -- Harjo, Joy / J. R. R. Tolkien -- Eagle Poem Joy / Harjo -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Buffalo song / Anonymous Osage poet -- from "The Elephant's child" / Rudyard D. Kipling 1936 -- Alphabet / Seamus Heaney -- John Smith and his Son, John Smith / Wallace Stevens -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Dinosaur diets / Jane Yolen -- My sister saw a dinosaur / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Joey / Brad Leithauser -- Rabbit / Mary Ann Hoberman -- At last / James Stevenson -- Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Pope, Alexander -- Balloons / William Jay Smith -- Hide and seek / Robert Graves -- Every time I climb a tree / David McCord -- The reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni -- Trips / Nikki Giovanni -- Mommies / Nikki -- Giovanni -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali -- Good luck gold / Janet S. Wong -- The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown -- Why? / James Stevenson -- The Question / Karla Kuskin -- First Grade / William Stafford -- Crying / Galway Kinnell -- Art class / X. J. Kennedy -- How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- Working with mother / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Faery song / W. B. Yeats, d.1939 -- Unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke / translated by Paul Muldoon -- Lion and the lily / Elizabeth Spires -- Hist whist / E.E. Cummings -- Ghost and Jenny Jemina / Lee, Dennis -- From the Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Sheep party / John Fuller -- Jamacian song / James Berry -- Halfway down / A.A. Milne d. 1956 -- Count to ten and we'll be there/ Rita Dove -- Opposite poem 4 / Richard Wilbur -- Opposite poems 7 and 20 / Richard Wilbur -- Custard the dragon / Ogden Nash, d. 1971 -- Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros -- Lies, all lies / William Cole -- Which is the Best? / James Stevenson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer d. 1940 -- Testing Tree, Part 1 / Stanley Kunitz -- Skating in the wind / George, Kristine O'Connell -- Poem for Jesse / Sanchez, Sonia -- To PJ / Sanchez, Sonia -- Valentine / Donald Hall -- Summer / W.D. Snodgrass -- Winter / W.D. Snodgrass -- Sun has a tail / Emanuel di Pasquale -- Knowville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz, d. 1966 -- Tyger / William Blake -- Conversation with a mouse / Robert Bly -- On turning ten / Billy Collins -- How to stay up late / X. J. Kennedy -- Flashlight / X. J. Kennedy -- Maturity / X. J. Kennedy -- Wynken, blynken, and nod / Eugene Field, d. 1895 -- Little / Dorothy Aldis -- Two in Bed - Ross, Abram Bunn -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman --- Land of Counterpane / Robert Lewis Stevenson -- From The Bed Book / Sylvia Plath -- Coming of Teddy Bears / Dennis Lee.

ISBN

• 1402203292 (alk. paper)
• 9781402203299

LCCN

2005023743

OCLC

61295906

Title

Poetry speaks to children / editor, Elise Paschen ; illustrators, Judy Love, Wendy Rasmussen, Paula Zinngrabe Wendland ; advisory editors, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, X.J. Kennedy.

Imprint

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102) and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Paschen, Elise.

Love, Judy, 1953- ill.

Rasmussen, Wendy, 1952- ill.

Wendland, Paula Zinngrabe, ill.

Branch Call Number

J 811.08 P