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A fully bilingual children’s book, My First Book of Haiku includes the original Japanese poems (in both Japanese script and Romaji form) on each page alongside the English translation to form a complete cultural experience. Each haiku poem is accompanied by a full page “dreamscape” painting.
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What really goes on at school! Funny poems and pictures explore the secret lives of school lunches, jungle gyms, pencils, and more.
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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.
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For this companion to her “New York Times”-bestselling collection “A Family of Poems,” Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.
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What is a haiku? It sounds like a sneeze. And isn’t a lantern a light source? Actually, they are two types of ancient Japanese poetry. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how each form works–and shows how these little poems can contain big surprises.
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Twenty poems about school from writers such as Jane Yolen, Alice Schertle, and J. Patrick Lewis.
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Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because its results are so fun to read. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! Wet Cement teaches kids to look at words in a whole new way.
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