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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...
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Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way, "We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today." From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language...
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Woodley Press, Department of English, Washburn University
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems, edited by Caryn Mirriam-goldberg, Poet Laureate of Kansas, celebrates the spirit of Kansas in the state's Sesquicentennial year. Exploring how magic can be found in a beyond our own backyards, this anthology journeys into beginnings and endings, dreams and desires, departures and homecomings all rooted in the Kansas land and sky. Step into this book, and land in poetry that illuminates the extraordinary around us all...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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This must-have for poets of all ages is a compilation of letters and poems from 32 internationally renowned poets who provide words of wisdom and inspiring examples of their own work. Contributors include Kalli Dakos, Rob Farnsworth, Bobbi Katz, Jack Prelutsky, and Jane Yolen.