Childrens Poetry

Childrens Poetry

The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination [With CD (Audio)] (Hardcover)

By Mary Ann Hoberman, Linda Winston, Barbara Fortin
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9781402225178
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Published: Sourcebooks, 10/2009
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The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science and Imagination (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $19.99) is a brilliant collection of poems about the natural world. Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston’s wide-ranging selection of over 100 poems includes a CD with Ogden Nash, Jack Prelutsky, and others reading their poems; biographies of the poets; a glossary of literary and scientific terms; and reference notes. Ages 7 and up. Mary Alice Garber

The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Hardcover)

By Bobbi Katz, Adam McCauley
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781402744174
Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Sterling, 9/2009
Ghostwriter Bobbi Katz presents the “choicest fruits from [a monsterologist’s] research in this rare collection of letters, notes, and interviews” with history’s most well-known monsters. The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Sterling, $17.95) includes a most cordial no-return invitation from Count Dracula and a little ditty on Godzilla’s breath. The monster-related paraphernalia by illustrator Adam McCauley lends an air of verisimilitude to this burgeoning science. Ages 6-10. Dara La Porte

My People (Hardcover)

By Langston Hughes, Charles R. Smith Jr.
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781416935407
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1/2009
Langston Hughes’s thirty-three word poem, My People (Atheneum, $17.99), is a joyous celebration of being African-American. Charles R. Smith Jr.’s black-and-white photographs of African-Americans, from newborns to the elderly, from light-skinned to dark-skinned, movingly illustrate the many faces of Hughes’s people today.  Ages 2 and up.  Dara La Porte