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Heroic, tragic, fantastical, funny, cautionary and mythical ... Whatever your choice of story, there's a poem here for you, because 'Once Upon a Poem' brings together some of the best stories told in verse! From the magical 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll to Roald Dahl's wicked retelling of Goldilocks, stunningly illustrated in colour and championed by today's best authors. Voted one of the best storybooks in 2004 by Books for Keeps.
After his mother, hurrying to her tuba lesson, tells him that a poem will cure his pet fish's boredom, a little boy tries to find out what a poem is by asking friends, neighbors, and other members of his family.
"Close your eyes--make the white gaze disappear." What is it like to be black and joyful, without submitting to the white gaze? This question, and its answer, is at the core of Black Imagination, a dynamic collection collection curated by artist and poet Natasha Marin. Born from a series of exhibitions and fueled by the power of social media (#blackimagination), the collection includes work from a range of voices who offer up powerful individual visions of happiness and safety, rituals and healing. Black Imagination presents an opportunity to understand the joy of blackness without the lens of whiteness.
Now one of Booklist's 30 Best Books of the Year! "Genius!" – Wired.com “Marilyn Singer's verse in Follow Follow practically dances down each page . . . the effect is miraculous and pithy.” – The Wall Street Journal Once upon a time, Mirror Mirror, a brilliant book of fairy tale themed reversos–a poetic form in which the poem is presented forward and then backward–became a smashing success. Now a second book is here with more witty double takes on well-loved fairy tales such as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid. Read these clever poems from top to bottom and they mean one thing. Then reverse the lines and read from bottom to top and they mean something else–it is almost like magic! A celebration of sight, sound, and story, this book is a marvel to read again and again.
Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.
Author Mary Raushi shares the hopes, fears, and dreams in a collection of 288 short poems that reveal her heart as a young woman.
The classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," and "Foreign Land."
Once upon a star, there were no stars to shine -- no sun to rise no sun to set no day, no night, nor any time. Discover the origins of the universe! The worlds of poetry and science collide to create this unique book about our sun, our planets, our Earth--and YOU!
Parents get their dinosaurs to bed.