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Three new chapter books feature Arthur and his friends for fans ready to read on their own. Each book features longer Arthur Adventures at a third-grade reading level and has loads of kid appeal. Arthur is in top form as he tries to figure out who Muffy's secret admirer is, enters a poetry contest with all his friends, and attempts to rein in Buster's ego when he becomes a local hero. Arthur fans will want to read and collect all of these new chapter books!

Jean Hollander, poet, teacher, and director of the Writers Conference at the College of New Jersey.

Immerse yourself in great poetic tradition — works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Lamartine, Hugo, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Saint-John Perse, Eluard and many more. Full texts in French with literal English translation on facing pages. Critical, biographical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.

The Age of Shakespeare. Astrophel. Atalanta in Calydon. A Century of Roundels. Channel Passage and Other Poems. Chastelard. A Dark Month. The Duke of Grandia (play, short). Erechtheus. Heptalogia. Locrine. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems. Poems and Ballads. Rosamund. Songs Before Sunrise. Songs of the Springtides. Songs of Two Nations. Studies in Song. The Tale of Balen. Various Poems.

Writing Poetry is intended to be an all-purpose poetry writing textbook, a fount of inspiration and informtion on the writing process, a solid first step for beginners, and a source of ideas for writers and teachers at all levels. Taken from the Greek word meaning making something up, poetry gos beyond the simple act of creation to inspire. In this textbook, the core structure of the genre is dissected so the intangible may be a little more understood. Writing Poetry is an appreciative study of an...

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Read the poems (like one of our favorites, "Sneeze") to your kids yourself. A reviewer suggested keeping it handy on the bedside table.

Striking photos pair with well-crafted wordplay in these themed introductions to rhyme and rhythm. Poems in various forms celebrate everything from sitting in class to sailing through space. IL: PreK–2.

[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Good ISBN-13: 9780486267128 ISBN-10: 0486267121Publisher: Dover Publications Pub Date: 6/1/1991 Binding: Paperback Pages: 160

Arthur's class is holding a poetry contest. When Fern is the only one who enters, she dares Arthur and his friends to write a poem - or else enrol in the poetry club for a whole year! They quickly agree to the challenge but discover that writing poetry is much harder than they thought. Will Arthur, Buster, Francine and Muffy be able to write poems good enough to read in front of the whole class?

A seemingly dark novel, reminiscent of Camus, but with a glimmer of hope and indeed, humour and even romance, as the search for family and home amidst the pressures of an authoritarian society ensues.... A young man, Boots, escapes from a convict train in autumn leaving behind four of his companions from the labour camp with whom he has been incarcerated for nearly ten years. He shelters in a house belonging to a woman and her ailing mother-in-law (the only one left standing after a bombing campaign...

By Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz. Carefully prepared lessons use the rhythm and rhyme of poetry to teach phonics. Two books each contain more than 100 read-aloud poems—some by well-known children’s authors, others written specifically for this series&^mdash;that immerse children in zesty poems to focus attention on selected language sounds. A well-considered teaching apparatus accompanies each poem: word lists using the targeted sound, a "focusing talk" to cement and extend students’ connection to the poem...

Notes: A very nice old set. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold are bumped and worn, with small tears at tops of spines. End papers are toned and gilt-edged pages show light toning, are lightly shaken but essentially clean and sound. Volume 1 has small old-fashioned cut-out metallic figure pasted onto first end paper, FEP shows offset from the figure.

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Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience - Richard Holmes, William Blake - Hardcover - NON-FICTION - ENGLISH - 9781854377296

British poet Steve Turner produced 70 poems for this collection. As he notes in the introduction, "The challenge I set myself was to write three poems for every hour of a typical day and night." Turner met this task with, for the most part, a lighthearted humor that illuminates the very normal aspects of a child's life. For example, in "Sleepovers," Turner suggests that they should be banned because "People don't sleep during sleep-overs./They eat sweets/during sleep-overs/and make noises/and watch...

* "Before I read a word of this book, I was struck by the simple beauty of its design, in which traditional and modern elements meet happily. Taking us through the seasons and then to a place beyond them, the author somehow manages to make his voice heard even in the empty spaces between the haiku... a voice that moves deftly from whitest light to blackest night, showing us all the shades and shadows in between." - S. Barry