Title:
Firefly July : a year of very short poems / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
ISBN:
9780763648428
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents:
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 lilly / 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 -- Bronce 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 dor / James Stevenson -- Headline / Cid Corman -- In the alley / Alice Schertle -- Tall city / Susan Michols 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 / Anne Porter -- Night / Herbert Read -- A welcome mat of moonlight / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser.
Summary:
A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader LG 4.5 0.5 165330
Interest age level:
Ages 6-9.
OCLC Number:
ocn852457504
Availability:
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