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Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward, and he beheld his ship coming with the mist. Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over...

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe catch stars in their nets of silver and gold.

An abridgement of the epic poem describing the life and deeds of a legendary Indian brave.

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...

A collection of 128 poems by a variety of well-known authors with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists.

A contemporary interpretation of the well-known nineteenth-century nursery rhyme about the school-going lamb, accompanied by color photographs, a sample exercise from McGuffey's reader, and a note on the history of the author and her famous rhyme.

An illustrated selection of poems by the renowned nineteenth-century New England poet.