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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
- 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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