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21) Action rhymes
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Includes such popular rhymes as "See-saw, Margery Daw," "Jack be nimble," and "Here is the church," with illustrations showing the actions that should be used with each one.
22) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this place in life."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Kloefkorn is a perfect blend of poet, raconteur, and scholar....Kloefkorn's poetry--perhaps like all poetry--is about the price of wonder. Wonder at nature, wonder at fate, and wonder--finally, luminously--at the miraculous depths and tributaries of the human soul."--Brent Spencer, Nebraska Life.
"Kloefkorn's style comes not only from long attention to the world, but from sustained immersion in the art and craft of language, and from granting himself...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that more than six million pets arrive annually at community animal shelters in the United States? Of that number over three million are dogs. But of course it's not just dogs and puppies that need homes. Shelters take in cats, kittens, birds, reptiles, and even domestic farm animals. And there are many reasons why these animals need to go to shelters. Some of the animals are strays and some are lost; some are rescued from natural disasters...
Author
Publisher
White Pine Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
In Independent, he writes: "A recent issue of the hometown paper / turns bloodhound to sniff me out, / and I read that the church / where I learned to have no other gods / before it / has merged with a larger denomination, / the stuccoed building, big as a poor boy's / castle, sold to the Baptists, / and quick as a miracle I mix myself a drink."
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