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Here is a simple collection of simple poems on the simple wonders of the world: turtles and swings, and a turkey who lives on a hill; animal crackers and cocoa, and cats that have come to tea. The anthology is adorned with truly beautiful original illustrations by K. J. Khan.

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This book is an important resource because it provides in one volume many poems that concern noble actions or ideas presented in beautiful patterns of sound.

This book contains all the poems recommended in Berquist’s best-selling Designing Your Classical Curriculum. The extensive selection includes poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, G.K. Chesterton, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, and many others. There are three indices to help locate specific poems. This book also includes dictation selections that are useful tools in the development of the child’s writing ability, as well as study questions and answers for each poem.

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We each have a limited amount of time to fill our minds–and our souls–with good things. Here’s one tool to help.

Including poems by Homer, Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Wendell Berry, Jane Kenyon, Langston Hughes, Dana Gioia, Elizabeth Jennings, Rhina Espaillat, W.B. Yeats, John Keats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, A.E. Stallings, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Percy Shelley, Richard Hayden, Richard Wilbur,

With essays by Anthony Esolen, Maurice Manning, James Matthew Wilson, Sally Thomas, Jessica Hooten Wilson, A.M. Juster, Christine Perrin, Jeffrey Bilbro, Heidi White, Ian Andrews, Emily Andrews, Brian Phillips, Matthew Bianco, and David Kern.

Featuring an introductory essay on how to read a poem by Sally Thomas.

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A National Parenting Publications Gold Award Winner and Book Sense of the Year Finalist, The Llama Who Had No Pajama, features 100 poems by Children’s Poet Laureate (2008-2010), Mary Ann Hoberman, as well as whimsical full-color illustrations by Betty Fraser. The book also includes an index of first lines for easy reference.

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Artist Gyo Fujikawa’s full-color and black-and-white illustrations will delight readers of all ages and add to the thrill of reading these classic children’s poems.

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The poems have been unchanged, and still resonate with the flowing rhythm and deep language of the original works.

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