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A tree place and other poems / Constance Levy ; illustrated by Robert Sabuda.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PS3562.E9256 T73 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Constance, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Juvenile poetry.
- Nature.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Nature--Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 40 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books ; New York ; Oxford : Maxwell Macmillan International ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, [©1994]
- Summary:
- A collection of forty poems about nature and the outdoor world.
- Contents:
- Surprises
- Orange-lined whelk
- Small earthquake in the ivy
- Inchworm
- Little boats
- Technique
- Swimmer
- Moon magic
- Noon shadows
- Worm warm
- Ice talk
- Dandelion roots
- Pelicans
- S is for snake
- Hide-and-seek
- Power failure
- Moon peach
- Greensweet
- Gleam team
- Three of us
- Tree place
- On the bridge at the Japanese garden
- Volcano
- Let's pop the corn
- For rent: one moon snail shell
- Seed secrets
- Rock tumbler
- Hummingbird with read
- Drizzle
- Princess of foot
- Morning is busy
- Flower feelings
- Once in an early morning mist
- Merge
- Camouflaged amphibian
- To a cicada of four surprises
- Cicada story
- Wasp on the weedstalk
- White dandelion
- Forest secrets.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- "Designed by Nancy B. Williams"--t.p. verso.
- "The text of this book is set in Baskerville."
- "The illustrations are rendered in pencil."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 1994.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Levy, Constance. Tree place and other poems.
- ISBN:
- 068950599X
- 9780689505997
- OCLC:
- 28221043
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