Knock at a star : a child's introduction to poetry / [compiled by] X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy ; illustrated by Karen Ann Weinhaus.
1982
PS593.C45 K6 1982
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Title
Knock at a star : a child's introduction to poetry / [compiled by] X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy ; illustrated by Karen Ann Weinhaus.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0316488534 :
9780316488532
9780316488532
Imprint
Boston : Little, Brown, c1982.
Description
xii, 148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS593.C45 K6 1982
Summary
An anthology of mostly very short poems by standard, contemporary, and anonymous poets, intended to stimulate interest in reading and writing poetry.
Note
Includes indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
What do Poems do?
Make You Smile
Crunchy / Max Fatchen
Commas / Douglas Florian
My Mother Took Me Skating / Jack Prelutsky
Learning / Judith Viorst
There Was a Man / Dennis Lee
Algy
The Termite / Ogden Nash
Spring is sprung
The Ceiling / Theodore Roethke
Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman
Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin
Getting Together / N. M. Bodecker
Tell Stories
A Peanut sat on a railroad track / Anonymous
The Knowledgeable Child / L. A. G. Strong
The Purist / Ogden Nash
What Has Happened to Lulu? / Charles Causley
Coyote Blue / Judith Mountain-Leaf Volborth
But Only the Breeze ... / Constance Levy
The Outlaw / Felice Holman
A Story That Could Be True / William Stafford
Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast / John Ciardi
John Henry
Send Messages
Before Starting / Walker Gibson
Smokescreen / Charles Ghigna
Subway Rush Hour / Langston Hughes
The Golf Links / Sarah N. Cleghorn
Spectacular / Lilian Moore
Childhood / Frances Cornford
Poor / Myra Cohn Livingston
Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth
Landscape / Eve Merriam
A word is dead / Emily Dickinson
Oh, God of dust and rainbows / Langston Hughes
Time to Plant Trees / James Hayford
Share Feelings
Christmas morning i / Carol Freeman
And Stands There Sighing / Elizabeth Coatsworth
My Brother / Bobbi Katz
Leave Me Alone / Felice Holman
Look Out! / Max Fatchen
Zimmer in Grade School / Paul Zimmer.
Make You Smile
Crunchy / Max Fatchen
Commas / Douglas Florian
My Mother Took Me Skating / Jack Prelutsky
Learning / Judith Viorst
There Was a Man / Dennis Lee
Algy
The Termite / Ogden Nash
Spring is sprung
The Ceiling / Theodore Roethke
Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman
Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin
Getting Together / N. M. Bodecker
Tell Stories
A Peanut sat on a railroad track / Anonymous
The Knowledgeable Child / L. A. G. Strong
The Purist / Ogden Nash
What Has Happened to Lulu? / Charles Causley
Coyote Blue / Judith Mountain-Leaf Volborth
But Only the Breeze ... / Constance Levy
The Outlaw / Felice Holman
A Story That Could Be True / William Stafford
Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast / John Ciardi
John Henry
Send Messages
Before Starting / Walker Gibson
Smokescreen / Charles Ghigna
Subway Rush Hour / Langston Hughes
The Golf Links / Sarah N. Cleghorn
Spectacular / Lilian Moore
Childhood / Frances Cornford
Poor / Myra Cohn Livingston
Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth
Landscape / Eve Merriam
A word is dead / Emily Dickinson
Oh, God of dust and rainbows / Langston Hughes
Time to Plant Trees / James Hayford
Share Feelings
Christmas morning i / Carol Freeman
And Stands There Sighing / Elizabeth Coatsworth
My Brother / Bobbi Katz
Leave Me Alone / Felice Holman
Look Out! / Max Fatchen
Zimmer in Grade School / Paul Zimmer.
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