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Winter poems / selected by Barbara Rogasky ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PS595.W5 W59 1994
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rogasky, Barbara.
Hyman, Trina Schart, illustrator.
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry.
English poetry.
Winter--Poetry.
Winter.
Seasons--Poetry.
WINTER POETRY.
Local Subjects:
WINTER POETRY.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
Tehon, Susan (donor)
Physical Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Scholastic Inc., [©1994]
Summary:
Celebrate winter through a special collection of poetry from some of the world's greatest poets such as William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others. Glistening acrylic paintings feature snowy landscapes. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Full-color illustrations.
Contents:
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field
Oregon winter / Jeanne McGahey
I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford
Moon / Japanese, Anonymous
A merry note / William Shakespeare
Snow toward evening / Melville Cane
from Snow Storm / John Clare
from Snowbound / John Greenleaf Whittier
from Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
from a Winter Piece / William Cullen Bryant
The Germ / Ogden Nash
Cat on a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Laughing boy / Richard Wright
The buck in the snow / Edna St. Vincent Millay
from the Bells / Edgar Allan Poe
Night / Sara Teasdale
Winter dark / Lilian Moore
from the Prelude / William Wordsworth
Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie
Skiing / Marchette Chute
Waiting for birds / David Kherdian
from Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy
A patch of old snow / Robert Frost
An awful tempest / Emily Dickinson
from Blossom themes / Carl Sandburg.
Notes:
"Scholastic Hardover."
"First printing, October 1994."
"The paintings in this book were rendered in acrylics on illustration board."
"Book design by Claire, Trina, and Barbara"--t.p. verso.
Designed by Atha Tehon.
Local Notes:
Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
ISBN:
0590428721
9780590428729
0590975536
9780590975537
9780590428736
059042873X
OCLC:
24143782

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