Elise Paschen

Poetry Speaks to Children

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry Speaks to Children is an imaginative treasury of the spoken and written word for kids of all ages.? 52 Wonderful Performances by the poets and a few close friends, featuring: Rita Dove Reads The First Book ---ROBERT FROST Reads Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening --GWENDOLYN BROOKS Growls The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves --Galway Kinnell Tells Why Crying (Lots) Is a Must --OGDEN NASH Reads from The Adventures of Isabel --MARY ANN HOBERMAN Reads Brother (Can You Read It Faster?) --X. J. Kennedy Reveals the Secrets of How to Stay Up Late --Carl Sandburg Reads On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride --Emma Fielding Performs LEWIS CARROLL?S JABBERWOCKY --James Berry Reads Okay, Brown Girl, Okay (and Tells You for Whom He Wrote It) --J. R. R. TOLKIEN READS FRODO?S SONG IN BREE from the Lord of the Rings trilogy --LANGSTON HUGHES Takes You on the Train Where He Wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers --Janet S. Wong Reads Good Luck Gold (and Tells You What a Red Egg and Ginger Party Is) --Paul Muldoon Reads from W. B. YEATS and Rainer Maria Rilke --Basil Rathbone (Best Known as Sherlock Holmes) Reads from THE RAVEN --Brad Leithauser Reads Joey --Poetry Alive! Takes You Out to the Ball Game with CASEY AT THE BAT --Sonia Sanchez Reads A Poem for Jesse --Robert Bly Has a Conversation with a Mouse --NIKKI GIOVANNI Tells You the Reason She Likes Chocolate --Eddie Douglas Performs Dennis Lee's The Ghost and Jenny Jemima --Joy Harjo Sings an Eagle Poem --ROALD DAHL Reads The Dentist and the Crocodile --BILLY COLLINS Remembers On Turning Ten

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sourcebooks
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 279mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781402203299
• ISBN-10: 1402203292
• Artikelnr.: 21879700

Autorenporträt

Elise Paschen is the editor of Poetry Speaks to Children and co-editor of Poetry Speaks, both New York Times bestsellers. She is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections of her own, including Bestiary and Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, she is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion, a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses, and co-editor of Poetry in Motion and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast.