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"Presents a collection of reverso poems that when read in reverse reveal other meanings, inviting readers to uncover dual points of view in such classic Greek tales as "Pandora's Box" and "Echo and Narcissus.""--Publisher.

A collection of poems primarily about nature and the seasons but also concerned with chocolate and scary movies.

An illustrated selection of twenty-seven complete or excerpted poems by the renowned nineteenth-century New England poet. Also includes information about his life.

Combines photography with lyrical text celebrating the animal world, in a compilation that includes works by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling.

A stunning and picture book reissue of the “brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) classic Mother Goose collection of over 300 rhymes illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Arnold Lobel. This treasury of 302 timeless rhymes includes both favorite and less familiar verses that are the foundation of any child’s language development, such as “This little pig went to market” and “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.” In a starred...

Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...

Fancy Nancy and her class learn about poetry and write their own poems to read on Family Day at school.

A poetic exploration of the ways humans and animals communicate and interact with a touch, a look, or an action.