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Where I live : poems about my home, my street, and my town / selected by Paul B Janeczko ; illustrated by Hyewon Yum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 40 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781536200942
  • 1536200948
Other title:
  • Poems about my home, my street, and my town
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Home. Home / X. J. Kennedy -- The breakfast boss / Janet Wong -- The window / Walter de la Mare -- Our rooftop / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Sunday brunch / Reuben Jackson -- Ode to a sprinkler / Gary Soto -- Back yard / Valerie Worth -- Crickets / Myra Cohn Livingston -- The train / Charlotte Zolotow -- Our cats / Wes Magee -- Now the swing is still / Nicholas Virgilio -- Street. Spruce Street, Berkeley / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sidewalk cracks / Patricia Hubbell -- Block party / Nikki Grimes -- Ode to my shoes / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Ice cream truck / Irene Latham -- In yellow boots / Paul B. Janeczko -- Over in the pink house / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- The tree on the corner / Lilian Moore -- October / Linda Sue Park -- The walk / Charles Waters -- Snowplow / Hope Vestergaard -- Town. If I could build a town / Betsy Franco -- People / Lois Lenski -- Mrs. Peck-Pigeon / Eleanor Farjeon -- At the car wash / Lin Oliver -- Launderama / Iain Crichton Smith -- Grocery store cat / Dave Crawley -- New kid at school / Betsy Franco -- Recess / Avis Harley -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Winter in the park / Charles Ghigna -- Snowy benches / Aileen Fisher -- City / Langston Hughes.
Summary: "This diverse selection of 34 poems, paired with bright illustrations that capture daily life, celebrates the places where we live: our homes, our streets, our towns"-- Provided by publisher
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 811.6 W567 Available 33111011054414
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 811.6 W567 Available 33111010979827
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What is home? Revel in the ineffable sense of belonging in anthologist Paul B. Janeczko's diverse selection of poems with sure appeal for children.

Home is shoes tucked under the bed while you sleep, or fancy-dancying at the neighborhood block party. It's buttermilk biscuits and gospel music at the church picnic. It's traffic lights and parked cars; rooftop views as far as you can see; ice cream trucks and yellow boots; sharing breakfast cereal and boiled eggs with your brothers; or running through sprinklers with water on your lips, dripping from eyelashes like fat raindrops. Whether we hang our hats in a walk-up apartment in the city, a farmhouse in the country, or any place in between, the poems in this collection celebrate the places where we live: our homes, our streets, our towns. Gathered by eminent poet and anthologist Paul B. Janeczko, these thirty-four inviting verses are paired with light-filled illustrations by Hyewon Yum evoking the warm details of daily life.

Contributors include:
Francisco X. Alarcón * Dave Crawley * Walter de la Mare * Rebecca Kai Dotlich * Eleanor Farjeon * Aileen Fisher * Betsy Franco * Charles Ghigna * Nikki Giovanni * Nikki Grimes * Avis Harley * Patricia Hubbell * Langston Hughes * Reuben Jackson * Paul B. Janeczko * X. J. Kennedy * Irene Latham * Lois Lenski * Myra Cohn Livingston * Wes Magee * Lilian Moore * Naomi Shihab Nye * Lin Oliver * Linda Sue Park * Iain Crichton Smith * Gary Soto * Amy Ludwig VanDerwater * Hope Vestergaard * Nicholas Virgilio * Charles Waters * Janet Wong * Valerie Worth * Charlotte Zolotow

Includes bibliographical references.

Home. Home / X. J. Kennedy -- The breakfast boss / Janet Wong -- The window / Walter de la Mare -- Our rooftop / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Sunday brunch / Reuben Jackson -- Ode to a sprinkler / Gary Soto -- Back yard / Valerie Worth -- Crickets / Myra Cohn Livingston -- The train / Charlotte Zolotow -- Our cats / Wes Magee -- Now the swing is still / Nicholas Virgilio -- Street. Spruce Street, Berkeley / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sidewalk cracks / Patricia Hubbell -- Block party / Nikki Grimes -- Ode to my shoes / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Ice cream truck / Irene Latham -- In yellow boots / Paul B. Janeczko -- Over in the pink house / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- The tree on the corner / Lilian Moore -- October / Linda Sue Park -- The walk / Charles Waters -- Snowplow / Hope Vestergaard -- Town. If I could build a town / Betsy Franco -- People / Lois Lenski -- Mrs. Peck-Pigeon / Eleanor Farjeon -- At the car wash / Lin Oliver -- Launderama / Iain Crichton Smith -- Grocery store cat / Dave Crawley -- New kid at school / Betsy Franco -- Recess / Avis Harley -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Winter in the park / Charles Ghigna -- Snowy benches / Aileen Fisher -- City / Langston Hughes.

"This diverse selection of 34 poems, paired with bright illustrations that capture daily life, celebrates the places where we live: our homes, our streets, our towns"-- Provided by publisher

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