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Genre/Form: | Children's poetry Poetry Narrative poetry Echo verse Juvenile works |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Favorite poems. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., Inc., ©1957 (OCoLC)894774562 |
Material Type: | Primary school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen Josephine Ferris; Leonard Weisgard |
ISBN: | 0385076967 9780385076968 0385062494 9780385062497 |
OCLC Number: | 964646 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xxx, 598 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Myself and I -- My family and I -- My almanac -- It's fun to play -- Little things that creep and crawl and swim and sometimes fly -- Animals, pets and otherwise -- On the way to anywhere -- From the good earth growing -- Roundabout the country, roundabout town -- My brother the sun, my sister the moon, the stars, and mother earth -- Bird-watcher -- People to know, friends to make -- Almost any time is laughing time -- My fancy and I -- Sign of my nation, great and strong -- From all the world to me -- Story time is a special time -- From the family scrapbook. |
Responsibility: | selected for boys and girls by Helen Ferris ; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. |
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"Favorite Poems Old and New is a book of family poems. Those of us of an older generation will remember reading many of them around a fire on a winter's evening or perhaps in summertime resting under a tree and having someone read them aloud to us. I hope that young people will keep this book available for frequent 'dipping.' Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."-Eleanor Roosevelt"If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."-Kirkus"A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."-Library Journal"This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."-The Horn Book Read more...

