Firefly July : a year of very short poems / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014Edition: First edition, Reinforced Trade EditionDescription: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763648426
- 9780763648428
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.008 F523 | Available | 33111008013977 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Celebrated poet and anthologist Paul B. Janeczko pairs with Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet for a collection of short poems to sample and savor.
It only takes a few words, if they're the right words, to create a strong image. Whether listened to in the comfort of a cozy lap or read independently, the thirty-six very short poems in this collection remind readers young and old that a few perfect words and pictures can make the world glow. Selected by acclaimed poet Paul B. Janeczko and gorgeously illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems invites children to sample poems throughout the four seasons .
Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter.
Spring. Daybreak reminds us / Cid Corman -- Spring / Raymond Souster -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The island / Lillian Morrison -- In passing / Gerald Jonas -- Water lily / Ralph Fletcher -- Open-billed / X.J. Kennedy -- Window / Carl Sandburg -- Summer. Little orange cat / Charlotte Zolotow -- Subway rush hour / Langston Hughes -- A happy meeting / Joyce Sidman -- Firefly July / J. Patrick Lewis -- Sandpipers / April Halprin Wayland -- Bronze Age / Robert Morgan -- In the field forever / Robert Wallace -- Sea trade / Patricia Hubbell -- The moon was but a chin of gold / Emily Dickinson -- Fall. What is it the wind has lost / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser -- Screen door / James Stevenson -- Headline / Cid Corman -- In the alley / Alice Schertle -- Tall city / Susan Nichols Pulsifer -- The first September breeze fluttered / Liz Rosenberg -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- Between walls / William Carlos Williams -- Moonlight / Bruce Balan -- Winter. Old truck / Cynthia Pederson -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Uses for fog / Eve Merriam -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Snow fence / Ted Kooser -- The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase / Charles Reznikoff -- A wild winter wind / Richard Wright -- Winter twilight / Anne Porter -- Night / Herbert Read -- A welcome mat of moonlight / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser.
A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.
Ages 6-9.