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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...

A collection of poems describing a variety of birds and their activities.

A rythmic cycle of poems about a special day in May, when the hunter becomes the hunted.

Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.

"A collection of more than twenty humorous poems about dinosaurs by such writers as Jane Yolen, Madeleine Comora, and Philip Yates."--Provided by publisher.

A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.

An "anthology of sheer nonsense in verses, jump-rope rhymes, American folk songs, and limericks, from such diverse talents as Theodore Roethke, Laura E. Richards, John Ciardi, Carolyn Wells, and many other."