Walt Whitman : poetry for kids/ [poems by Walt Whitman] ; edited by Karen Karbiener, PhD ; illustrated by Kate Evans.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1633221504
- 9781633221505
- Poetry for kids
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.3 W615 | Available | 33111008607497 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.3 W615 | Available | 33111008762284 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Introduce children to the work of celebrated American poet Walt Whitman! Carefully chosen for kids, 35 illustrated poems are presented and explained by a Whitman expert.
Includes index.
Walt's welcome. Song of the open road (excerpt) -- Starting from Paumanok. There was a child went forth (two excerpts) ; Paumanok ; The sleepers (excerpt) ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking (two excerpts) ; Beginning my studies ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (three excerpts) ; A font of type -- Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son. Walt Whitman's caution ; I sing the body electric (excerpt) ; A woman waits for me (excerpt) ; City of ships (excerpt) -- City of ships (excerpt) -- Give me the splendid silent sun ; Song of myself (six excerpts) ; Shut not your doors ; Calamus -- The wound-dresser. Beat! Beat! Drums! ; The wound-dresser (excerpt) ; Come up from the fields father ; As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods ; O Captain! My captain! ; Aboard at a ship's helm -- The good gray poet. O me! O life! ; On the beach at night ; A noiseless patient spider ; Thanks in old age ; Poets to come -- What Walt was thinking -- Index.