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12 Ways To Get To 11 |
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Eve Merriam |
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From Publishers Weekly
Lively combinations of items add up to 11 in what PW called "a counting book with an innovative twist." Ages 2-6. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
From the late poet, a whimsical exploration of enumeration. On each colorful spread, like and dissimilar--but somehow related--objects total 11: ``Out of the magician's hat: four banners, five rabbits, a pitcher of water, and a bouquet of flowers''; or, ``Go past four corners and two traffic lights, then past the house with two chimneys and the garage with two cars and a bicycle. Now look, you're at Eleventh Street''; and, more obscurely since the first item is made known only by its absence, ``Six bites, a core, a stem, and three apple seeds.'' Karlin's cheerful collages feature light, bright... |
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You Be Good and I'll Be Night |
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Eve Merriam |
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0613004264 |
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From Publishers Weekly
Like Merriam's Blackberry Ink , this collection of cheerful, rollicking rhymes is sure to be a favorite. These are not sleepy bedtime poems, but bouncy, jingling verses guaranteed to please lively children who should be ready to "turn out the light / and close their eyes" by the time they reach the quiet last page. There are nonsense rhymes ("You be saucer, / I'll be cup, / piggyback, piggyback, / pick me up") and stories ("Harriet by magic force / turned herself into a horse"). There are loving poems ("You're my safety, / you're my pin, / hold me close / and fasten me in") and rowdy chants ("Skip in a circle, / skip in a square / lost my shoe / don't know where"). The illustrator of The Brave Little Toaster , Schmidt creates bright, exuberant watercolors, the perfect accompaniment for Merriam's joyful music.... |
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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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Growing up Female in America: Ten Lives, Vol. 737 |
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Eve Merriam |
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0807070092 |
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Ten women tell in unforgettable terms what it has meant to be female in America, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
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Spooky ABC |
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Eve Merriam |
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0689853564 |
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Poet Eve Merriam and Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith have mastered creepy. In 1987, they first created the award-winning Halloween ABC, and this deliciously sinister collection of poems and paintings has been redesigned by Molly Leach, digitally corrected, "spooked up," and rereleased as Spooky ABC. Smith first completed the project as a wordless picture book, depicting the 26 letters of the alphabet and their Halloweenish symbols... C for cat, for example. When Macmillan decided the book needed powerful words to accompany the dramatic paintings, they signed on poet Eve Merriam. In the bookmaking process, some of Merriam's choices for poem subjects trumped Smith's original illustrations--"vampire" became "viper," "yeti" became "yeast," "tree" became "trap," and "cat" became "crawler." "Invisible" disappeared into... |
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Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening |
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Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 1-5--This colorfully illustrated compilation presents 15 poems that show the power of words. The authors include Eve Merriam, Pat Mora, David McCord, Nikki Grimes, and Carl Sandburg. All of the selections are excellent, and provide examples of different types of poetry. The gouache illustrations are unusual, combining folk art with more abstract images. The colors are bold and bright, and used in unique and unexpected ways (e.g., skin is blue, palm trees are pink). The simple page designs nicely incorporate the text into each picture. The paintings reflect the content and messages of the poems they accompany, and will enhance their meaning. With some adult encouragement, this book would be appealing to most children, and could be used for poetry lessons.--Corrina Austin, Locke's Public School, St.... |
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Pocket Poems |
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illustrated by Marylin Hafner Selected by Bobbi Katz |
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Kindergarten-Grade 3--In this child-friendly collection of short, bouncy poems, Katz pulls together more than 50 previously published selections by a broad spectrum of authors. She sets the tone with one of her own: "With a poem in your pocket/and/a pocket in your pants/you can rock with new rhythms./You can skip./You can dance./And wherever you go,/and whatever you do,/that poem in your pocket is going there, too." Familiar Mother Goose rhymes and anonymous tidbits such as "The Burp" ("Pardon me for being rude./It was not me, it was my food") are included, along with traditional entries, such as Emily Dickinson's "Autumn," Lewis Carroll's "Twinkle, Twinkle," and an excerpt from William Blake's "Night." However, the greatest representation comes from contemporary, well-loved children's wordsmiths, including... |
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Big, Bad, and a Little Bit Scary: Poems That Bite Back! |
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Wade Zahares (Illustrator) |
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From Publishers Weekly
Zahares's (Window Music) boldly illustrated compilation of animal poems is a trip to the zoo and the haunted house wrapped into one. His full-bleed illustrations of the arctic tundra, ocean depths, jungle and swamp provide the backdrop for this forbidding collection of verse. Large, menacing eyes and open mouths of piranha seem to protrude into readers' space for Dick King-Smith's "Strippers": "They'll strip off your flesh like you'd skin a banana./ There's no time for screaming, there's no time for groans./ In forty-five seconds you're nothing but bones." The looming, ominous shadow of another predator hovers above a mouse for Russell Hoban's "Sparrow Hawk": "Below, the field mouse, where the shadow glides,/ Holds fast the small purse of his life, and hides." A frog tries to escape a similar fate in Eve... |
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Days like This: A Collection of Small Poems |
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Simon James |
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"My first day at school to-day.
Funny sort of day.
Didn't seem to learn much.
Seemed all we did was play.
Then teacher wrote some letters
On a board all painted black,
And then we had a story and...
I don't think I'll go back."
Sure, Mama said there'll be days like this, but little did she know they could be so perfectly captured in a poetry anthology. In this catchy collection, Simon James gathers 19 poems by writers such as Rod Hull ("First Day of School"), Eve Merriam, Ogden Nash, and Charlotte Zolotow; illustrates them; and wham! Days like this become something to look forward to. Celebrating the joys and trials of summer days at the beach, strumming a one-string guitar in the moonlight, bouncing on a bed, and watching rain fall, this buoyant book is worth a second,... |
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More Spice Than Sugar |
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Lillian Morrison |
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0618068929 |
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From Publishers Weekly
New poetry collections address femininity, family, pets and more. More Spice Than Sugar: Poems About Feisty Females, ed. by Lillian Morrison, illus. by Ann Boyajian, begins with Nikki Giovanni's life-affirming "the drum" and closes with William Collins's "Captain Molly," who saved the day at the battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution. In between are tales of past heroines (Eloise Greenfield's "Harriet Tubman"; Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?") and words of inspiration (Marianne Moore's "I May, I Might, I Must"; Alice Walker's "Women"). Boyajian's drawings capture the strength and pioneering spirit of this stalwart cast. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Gr 4-8-Divided into three sections, "When I Am Me," "She's a... |
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