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A collection of eighteen short poems celebrating love and friendship between animals, from cats and sheep to giraffes and crocodiles.

"The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the...

"A deluxe anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, curated by series creator Mike Flanagan There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? Slip...

Rhyming verses introduce the letters of the alphabet and the events surrounding the birth of Jesus.

This companion to Goodnight Songs celebrates the beauty and wonder of nature all year long. Previously unpublished poems and songs by Margaret Wise Brown have been set to music, from a little bear singing one morning in May to a soft snowfall, mysterious, deep, and glowing. Includes CD with songs composed and sung by Emily Gary and Tom Proutt. Twelve seasonal lullabies are illustrated by contemporary artists, including Peter Brown, Floyd Cooper,...