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Knock at a star : a child's introduction to poetry
A collection of poems arranged in such categories as poems that make you smile, send messages, or share feelings; poems that contain "beats that repeat" or "word play"; and special kinds of poems such as limericks, songs, and haiku.
Section one, What do poems do?
Part one, Make you smile : Crunchy / Max Fatchen
Commas / Douglas Florian
My mother took me skating / Jack Prelutsky
Learning / Judith Viorst
There was a man / Dennis Lee
Algy / Anonymous
Ceiling / Theodore Roethke
Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman
Knitted things / Karla Kuskin
Getting together / N.M. Bodecker.
Click "More Details" to view full contentsPart one, Make you smile : Crunchy / Max Fatchen
Commas / Douglas Florian
My mother took me skating / Jack Prelutsky
Learning / Judith Viorst
There was a man / Dennis Lee
Algy / Anonymous
Ceiling / Theodore Roethke
Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman
Knitted things / Karla Kuskin
Getting together / N.M. Bodecker.
Item details
- ISBN: 0316484369
- ISBN: 9780316484367
- ISBN: 0316488003
- ISBN: 9780316488006
- ISBN: 9781451700954
- ISBN: 1451700954
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Physical Description:
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xi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition: 1st rev. ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, ©1999.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Section one, What do poems do? ; Part one, Make you smile : Crunchy / Max Fatchen Commas / Douglas Florian My mother took me skating / Jack Prelutsky Learning / Judith Viorst There was a man / Dennis Lee Algy / Anonymous Ceiling / Theodore Roethke Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman Knitted things / Karla Kuskin Getting together / N.M. Bodecker. Part two, Tell stories : Peanut sat on a railroad track / Anonymous Knowlegeable child / L.A.G. Strong Purist / Ogden Nash What happened to Lulu? / Charles Causley Coyote blue / Judith Mountain-Leaf Volborth But only the breeze / Constance Levy Outlaw / Felice Holman Story that could be true / William Stafford Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi John Henry / Anonymous. Part three, Send messages : Before starting / Walker Gibson Smokescreen / Charles Ghigna Subway rush hour / Langston Hughes Golf links / Sarah N. Cleghorn Spctacular / Lilian Moore Childhood / Frances Cornford Poor / Myra Cohn Livingston Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth Landscape / Eve Merriam Word is dead / Emily Dickinson Oh, God of dust and rainbows / Langston Hughes Time to plant trees / James Hayford. Part four, Share feelings : Christmas morning i / Carol Freeman And stands there sighing / Elizabeth Coatsworth My brother / Bobbi Katz Leave me alone / Felice Holman Look out! / Max Fatchen Zimmer in grade school / Paul Zimmer Losing face / Janet S. Wong The 1st / Lucille Clifton Listening to grownups qurreling / Ruth Whitman Hide and seek / Robert Graves Hurt doe / Emanuel diPasquale Historic moment / William J. Harris Country school / Ted Kooser While I slept / Robert Francis. Part five, Help you understand people : People / Charlotte Zolotow Puerto Ricans in New York / Charles Reznikoff Narcissa / Gwendolyn Brooks Knowing one / Jean Little Park people / Karama Fufuka Myrtle / Ted Kooser Two people / Eve Merriam Mama's bouquets / Ashley Bryan My mother / Valeris Worth Dad / Janet S. Wong Sundays / Paul B. Janeczko grandmother / Ray A. Young Bear. Part six, Start you wondering : Magnet / Valerie Worth Key ring / Virginia Hamilton Adair Magical mouse / Kenneth Patchen Daniel Boone / Stephen Vincent Benét White horse / D.H. Lawrence Child on the shore / Ursula K. LeGuin Boat / Richard Brautigan Winter song / Dennis Lee Green candles / Humbert Wolfe Old stone house / Walter de la Mare. Section two, What's inside a poem? ; Part one, Images : Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros My fingers / Mary O'Neill September / John Updike Bull snake rattle / Barbara Juster Esbensen Surprise / Richard Brautigan Waiting for the storm / Timothy Steele Snowy benches / Aileen Fisher Peach / Rose Rauter Spruce woods / A.R. Ammons Runner / Walt Whitman This is a night / Elizabeth Coatsworth Earthy anecdote / Wallace Stevens. Part two, Word music : Winter ocean / John Updike Saying Dante aloud / James Wright Flittermice / Patricia Hubbell Skaters / John Gould Fletcher Rain / Emanuel diPasquale Julius Caesar / Anonymous Pickety fence / David McCord Mice are nice / N.M. Bodecker My old cat / Hal Summers Stories / J. Patrick Lewis Analysis of baseball / May Swenson Football / Walt Mason. Part three, Beats that repeat : We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks Ostrich is a silly bird / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson Windy nights / Robert Bennett Windshield wiper / Eve Merriam I am Rose / Gertrude Stein Canis Major / Robert Frost Paleface / James Hayford Opposite of kite, I'd say / Richard Wilbur My half / Florence parry Heide and Roxanne Heide Pierce Blackberry sweet / Dudley Randall Triolet aganist sisters / Phyllis McGinley. Part four, Likenesses : Fireflies / J. Patrick Lewis Porch light / Deborah Chandra Child frightened by a thunderstorm / Ted Kooser House-wreckers / Charles Reznikoff Wind and silver / Amy Lowell Dreams / Langston Hughes stars / Nikki Giovanni Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog / Alexander Pope Horses of the sea / Christina Rossetti Eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Splinter / Carl Sandburg Dry winter / Jane Kenyon Spill / Judith Thurman Wind / James Stephens. Part five, Word play : Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / N.M. Bodecker in Just- / e.e. cummings My auntie / Colin West Plant life / Alan Benjamin Song of the pop-bottlers / Morris Bishop Chess nut / Charles Ghigna Crickets / Myra Cohn Livingston Did you eever, iver, over? / Anonymous Auk talk / Mary Ann Hoberman Notice to myself / Eve Merriam I wave good-bye when butter flies / Jack Prelutsky. Section 3, Special kinds of poetry ; Part one, Limericks : Bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett / Anonymous There was an old person of Skye / Edward Lear Well, it's partly the shape of the thing / Anonymous How akward while playing with glue / Constance Levy April fool / John Ciardi Piggish young person from Leeds / Anonymous There was a young lady from Lynn / Anonymous There was a young lady named Rose / William Jay Smith There was a young lady of Twickenham / Oliver Herford There was an old man from Peru / Anonymous Blessèd Lord, what it is to by young / David McCrod. Part two, Takeoffs : Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! / Lewis Carroll This is just to say / William Carlos Williams Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams / Kenneth Koch Clementine / Anonymous In a cavern, in a canyon / Paul Dehn Sing a song of sixpence / Anonymous Sing a song of subways / Eve Merriam Wee four lads / Anonymous. Part three, Songs : Riddle song / Anonymous I had a little nut tree / Anonymous On top of old Smoky / Anonymous Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan. Part four, Show-and-spell poems : Dancing bear / Rachel Field You can talk about your hummingbirds / Arnold Adoff Sidewalk racer / Lillian Morrison waterwheels in whirl / Ian Hamilton Finlay Fury said to a mouse / Lewis Carroll Seashells / Douglas Florian For a quick exit / Norma Farber Concrete cat / Dorthi Charles HANDSAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW / Richard Lebovitz. Part five, Finders-keepers poems : GATE / Anonymous Yield / Ronald Gross Lake was covered all over / Dorothy Wordsworth 4-way stop / Myra Cohn Livingston Genuine poem, found on a blackboard in a bowling alley in Story City, Iowa / Ted Kooser. Part six, Haiku : Ancient pool / Bashō (trans. by Olivia Gray) Bantam rooster / Kikaku (trans. by harry Behn) Now the swing is still / Nicholas Virgilio out after dark / Penny Harter midnight sirens / Penny Harter Tunnel / Sylvia Cassedy Green cockleburs / Richard Wright After weeks of watching the roof leak / Gary Snyder Bang! the starter's gun / Dorthi Charles August / J. Patrick Lewis. Section 4, Do it yourself; Part one, Writing your own poems. Part two, Ideas : Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around / Anonymous Rope rhyme / Eloise Greenfield That old haunted house / Judith Viorst On the one-ton temple bell Bashō (trans. by Olivia Gray) Do it yourself / Joan Aiken. Part three, Afterword to adults. |
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