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A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets.

An illustrated version of the classic Christmas poem about a visit from St.

An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems by noted African-American poet Langston Hughes, and contains a detailed introduction and biography, as well as brief notes accompanying each poem.

"Amid the snow-covered woods, a young woman takes in the silent, overwhelming beauty of the natural world around her, all the while knowing that she has miles yet to travel on that dark, frosty night"--Jacket flap.

An illustrated collection of poems by Carl Sandburg designed to introduce young readers to the work of the twentieth-century American poet.

After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, an Owl and a pussycat finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

Describes the journey of African Americans from their homes in the South to industrial cities in the North around the time of World War I, and includes paintings that depict the migration.

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

An illustrated collection of poems and excerpts from longer poems by the nineteenth-century poet American poet, Walt Whitman.

A collection of children's poems that describe scenarios that take place in the elementary school bathroom, depicting the bathroom as a place to meet with friends and a place to take a break from it all.

Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.

A poem based on the story of creation from the first book of the Bible.

Presents a collection of sixteen illustrated poems that celebrate the power of thankfulness.

Based on Jutta Salzberg's autograph book that contained entries written by friends and family, it chronicles 1938, the last year Jutta and her Jewish family lived in Nazi Germany before their subsequent escape to Paris and, eventually, the United States.