Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Twenty-three light poems with bouncing rhythms.

Blackberry Ink

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Arnold Shapiro

New York

Illustrations and simple text describe the ways various animals communicate, such as "Owls hoot," "Pigs squeal," and "Bees buzz."

Mice Squeak, We Speak

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Brian McGackin

As contemporary poets sing the glories of birds, birch trees, and menstruation, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste's frozen pizza, for the cinematic oeuvre of Bruce Willis? 

Enter Broetry--a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. "Broet Laureate" Brian McGackin goes where no poet has gone before--to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments, and beyond. With poems like "Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, a Month Sophomore Year" and "My Friends Who Don't Have Student Loans," we follow the Bro from his high school graduation and college experience through a "quarter-life crisis" and beyond

Texas

Poetry for Dudes

As contemporary poets sing the glories of birds and birch trees, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste’s frozen pizza, for the cinematic oeuvre of Bruce Willis? Enter Broetry—a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. “Broet Laureate” Brian McGackin goes where no poet has gone before—to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments, and beyond. With poems like “Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, Two Months Sophomore Year” and “My Friends Who Don’t Have Student Loans,” we follow the Bro from his high school graduation and college experience through a “quarter-life crisis” and beyond.

Broetry

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II – railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" – are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present – a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier – are fraught with this same anxiety.

But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.



Poetry

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals: Again the growl Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble Of iron on iron, then a long centrifual Haulage of speed through every dragging socket. (from 'District and Circle')

District and Circle

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Clement C. Moore

Gennady Spirins classic illustrations convey the magic of St. Nicks visit, from the shadows cast by his sleigh and eight tiny reindeer on a snowy, moonlit roof to the twinkling eyes and rosy cheeks of his friendly face. "The Night Before Christmas" is sure to bring joy to all those who read it at Christmastime.

The Night Before Christmas

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Clean. 44pp.  See pics 📸
©1994

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Fun Book for Young People

Who taught you everything you know about money? Most folks learn the traditional way. . .trial and error. . .which is the hard way!

Who Taught You About Money?introduces basic money concepts in an interesting, unique, informative, and fun way. It will hold your attention and cause you to come back to it time and again. . .and hopefully you will want to share this book with others.

Learning how money works will increase your opportunity for success and long-term security. "Banker Sawbuck" is an expert in these matters. Use him to help teach your kids about one of the most important elements in human society--money.

⭐Who Taught You about Money?

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A Timeless Collection of the World's Most Cherished Poems of 💕 and Romance.

Nevada

How Do I Love Thee

Vintage Christian poetry book by Canadian poet Millicent M. Martin 

Garden of Remembrance 

New Jersey

101 GreatbAmerican Poems

H. A. Rey

Missouri

Curious George the monkey has a wonderful day in the city, where he has a picnic and plays in the park before watching a parade and seeing the fireworks display at night.

Curious George Parade Day Tabbed Board Book

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This is one of the RNL books that comes with personalized comments and an invitation to a conversation. 

Illinois

Selected Writings

Wendy Straw

North Carolina

"Join in the fun as this all-time favorite counting rhyme is brought to life by Wendy Straw's charming illustrations."--Page 4 of cover

There Were 10 in the Bed

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A beautifully illustrated edition of this classic children's song. Children's rhymes have been used for centuries to introduce children to literacy and numeracy and to teach simple lessons and routines. Children will love singing this song, all the while improving their backwards-counting skills.

5 Little Ducks

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#paperback #Hiawatha #poem #Longfellow #NativeAmerican #Indian #Minnehaha #poetry #Ojibwe

Maryland

Illustrated

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature.In his book on the development of the image of the Indian in American thought and literature, Pearce wrote about The Song of Hiawatha: "It was Longfellow who fully realized for mid-nineteenth century Americans the possibility of image of the noble savage. He had available to him not only poems on the Indian . . . but also the general feeling that the Indian belonged nowhere in American life but in dim prehistory. He saw how the mass of Indian legends which Schoolcraft was collecting depicted noble savages out of time, and offered, if treated right, a kind of primitive example of that very progress which had done them in. Thus in Hiawatha he was able, matching legend with a sentimental view of a past far enough away in time to be safe and near enough in space to be appealing, fully to image the Indian as noble savage. For by the time Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, the Indian as a direct opponent of civilization was dead, yet was still heavy on American consciences . . . . The tone of the legend and ballad... would color the noble savage so as to make him blend in with a dim and satisfying past about which readers could have dim and satisfying feelings."

The Song of Hiawatha

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Robert Pottle

Utah

Funny Poems and Songs about School

Selling Points 1. Robert Pottle is a prolific “Giggle Poet” whose work has been published in six popular Meadowbrook Press poetry anthologies. 2. An ex-teacher, Pottle’s poetry describes the hilarious misadventures that occur every day in school. 3. Pottle is a rising star on the school circuit. He presents poetry workshops in schools throughout New England and from coast to coast. 4. Pottle also visits bookstores when he’s on the road. (to be announced) 5. Feature for Poetry Month bookstore promotions. 6. Pottle is a brilliant new talent (like Kenn Nesbitt) who Lansky believes has star quality. Print - National print media campaign targeting reviewers and children’s editors at top 100 dailies - Regional and local media campaign to promote interviews with Robert Pottle - Press release & book to top 20 children’s magazines - Promotion to schools and libraries through education & library publications TV - Local TV campaign for Robert Pottle based on his travel schedule in conjunction with school visits. Radio - Nationwide children’s radio program campaignOnline Online publicity on the two top children’s poetry websites www.gigglepoetry.com and www.poetry4kids.comPromotion on parenting and lifestyle websites Other - Promote local area school visits for the author - Bookstore signings in cities where poet lives - Book will be promoted at schools, conferences, events at which Robert Pottle is scheduled to speak during the year This book contains 18 hilarious poems and songs about the funnier-than-fiction misadventures that occur every day at school, such as ripping pants on the playground, stapling shirts to shoelaces in art class, having embarrassing “accidents” at the kindergarten concert, and scoring unlikely game-winning soccer goals. Pottle has performed these poems in schools from coast to coast, so it’s no surprise they passed Meadowbrook Press’s poetry panel testing with flying colors. The four-color illustrations by Mike and Carl Gordon that accompany each poem/song are equally entertaining and giggle-packed! Robert Pottle is one of the most prolific and popular “Giggle Poets” in North America. He is coauthor of Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Tot, and his poems are featured in five other Meadowbrook Press anthologies of humorous poetry. His 20 best poems and songs are now featured in his first solo poetry collection, I’m Allergic to School! It contains humorous depictions of everyday events only a former teacher could capture in print. Moonbeam Book Awards 2008 SILVER AWARD: Children’s Poetry

I'm Allergic to School!

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#hardcover #exlibrary #civilwar #children #poem #historical #livingbook #poetry #poetryteatime #history 

An illustrated edition of the poem describing Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops invading her town.

Barbara Frietchie

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

A Poem

Made of Stars

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Hist Whist

Children will love this beautifully illustrated version of the classic Christmas poem, "The Night Before Christmas." 

The holiday poem is brought to life in this picture book featuring festive scenes of a Victorian home

The Night Before Christmas - 1989

Vintage Hardcover binding good - #hardcover #warof1812 #britishattack #prisoner #chesapeakebay #poem #writer

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

History

Vintage Hardcover

Francis Scott Key

Sonnets from the Portuguese 

"Illustrations of wintry scenes accompany each line of the well-known poem."

Very nice, clean copy, beautifully illustrated. Love this one 👍

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Illustrations of wintry scenes accompany each line of the well-known poem.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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#hardcover #fiction #poetry #tanyadavis #illustrated #selfhelp #graphicnovel #art #psychology #poem 

Pennsylvania

Since its debut on YouTube, Tanya Davis's beautiful and perceptive poem "How to Be Alone," visually realized by artist and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, has become an international sensation. In this edition of How to Be Alone, they have adapted the poem and its compelling illustrations for the page in a beautiful, meditative volume--a keepsake to treasure and to share. 

From a solitary walk in the woods to sitting unaccompanied on a city park bench to eating a meal and even dancing alone, How to Be Alone, reveals the possibilities and joys waiting to be discovered when we engage in activities on our own. As she soothes the disquietude that accompanies the fear of aloneness, and celebrates the power of solitude to change how we see ourselves and the world, Tanya reveals how, removed from the noise and distractions of other lives, we can find acceptance and grace within.



For those who have never been by themselves or those who embrace being on their own, How to Be Alone encourages us to recognize and embrace the possibilities of being alone--and reminds us of a universe of joy, peace, and discovery waiting to unfold.

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Eve Merriam; Hans Wilhelm (Illustrator)

Blackberry Ink

Arnold Shapiro

Mice Squeak, We Speak

Brian McGackin

Broetry

Seamus Heaney

District and Circle

Clement C. Moore

The Night Before Christmas

Richard Harris

⭐Who Taught You about Money?

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How Do I Love Thee

Millicent M. Martin

Garden of Remembrance

Andrew Carroll

101 GreatbAmerican Poems

H. A. Rey

Curious George Parade Day Tabbed Board Book

Paul Valery

Selected Writings

Wendy Straw

There Were 10 in the Bed

Wendy Straw

5 Little Ducks

Henry Longfellow; N. Wyeth (Illustrator)

The Song of Hiawatha

Robert Pottle

I'm Allergic to School!

John Greenleaf Whittier; Nancy Winslow Parker (Illustrator)

Barbara Frietchie

Robert Browning

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Mark H Fitzpatrick

Made of Stars

e.e. cummings and Deborah Kogan Ray (ill)

Hist Whist

Clement C. Moore

The Night Before Christmas - 1989

Lillie Patterson

Francis Scott Key

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Robert Frost; Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Tanya Davis; Andrea Dorfman

How to Be Alone (1st Edition)