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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
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Live Oak Media eReadalong volume 0
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"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...
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"A collection of humorous and heartfelt poetry for children and adults"--
"Bob Odenkirk began writing these poems with his children when they were little, compiling the poetry into a homemade book entitled Olde Time Rhymes. He wanted Nate and Erin to understand that actual people had written the books the family loved to read and to instill in them the feeling that they could be writers and illustrators themselves. Almost twenty years later, when...
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An illustrated version of the well-known text describing the joys of a Thanksgiving visit to grandmother's house.
"It's Thanksgiving Day, so hop in the sleigh and hold on tight as you journey through shimmering snow and a quiet but lively forest. Though the wind does blow, festive fun awaits at the end of the ride--along with plenty of pumpkin pie!"--Page [4] of cover.
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"If I were a mouse, just as small as could be, I would make my house in a hole in a tree..."A child imagines what fantastic adventures might unfold if he were one of God's many amazing animals, but ultimately finds comfort and joy in being created a child of God with the blessed gift of imagination.
17) Edgar Allan Poe
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A collection of thirteen poems and eight prose selections from larger works by the nineteenth century poet and story writer, Edgar Allan Poe.
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Born in Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson composed over 1770 poems; but apart from her closest friends, no-one knew she was writing at all. Only after her death was her astonishing output discovered and published. A reclusive figure for much of her life, few could have imagined the range of her subjects, the intensity of her imagination or the powerful delicacy of her writing. Emily Dickinson is one of America's greatest writers. This selection
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