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Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons Illustrated Reader
Classic poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, beautifully illustrated by Crystal Cregge. Includes a brief, child-friendly introduction to each poet. This illustrated book is wonderful on its own, and also makes a perfect companion to Jim Weiss’s audio CD: kids learn language and vocabulary when they follow along with the text and illustrations while listening to the audio performance.
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Classic poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, beautifully illustrated by Crystal Cregge. Includes a brief, child-friendly introduction to each poet. This illustrated book is wonderful on its own, and also makes a perfect companion to Jim Weiss’s audio CD: kids learn language and vocabulary when they follow along with the text and illustrations while listening to the audio performance.
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Classic poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, beautifully illustrated by Crystal Cregge. Includes a brief, child-friendly introduction to each poet. Includes poems by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and many more! Favorites such as “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” and “Casey at the Bat” are here, as well as overlooked gems like “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” and A.A. Milne’s “The King’s Breakfast.”
This illustrated book is wonderful on its own, and also makes a perfect companion to Jim Weiss’s audio version: kids learn language and vocabulary when they follow along with the text and illustrations while listening to the audio performance.
Like all of our books, this book is made in the USA from child-safe paper and dyes.
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Nursery Rhymes and Poems from Mother Goose:
Little Jack Horner
Wee Willie Winkie
There Was a Crooked Man
Three Men in a Tub
Old King Cole
Hey Diddle Diddle
Little Miss Muffet
Peter Piper
One Misty, Moisty Morning - Poems About Nature:
About Robert Frost
The Pasture (Frost) - About Robert Louis Stevenson
Windy Nights (Stevenson) - Who Has Seen the Wind? (Rossetti)
- About Christina Rossetti
Clouds (Rossetti) - About Edna St. Vincent Millay
Afternoon on a Hill (Millay) - About William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats) - About Carl Sandburg
Theme in Yellow (Sandburg) - Fog (Sandburg)
- About Emily Dickinson
To Make a Prairie (Dickinson) - I Send Two Sunsets (Dickinson)
- About e.e. cummings
In Just (Cummings) - Little Tree (Cummings)
- Wild Ride #1:
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow) - All-American Poems:
About Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing (Whitman) - About Ernest Thayer
Casey at the Bat (Thayer) - Unusual Companions:
The Bean-Stalk (Millay) - About John Kendrick Bangs
The Little Elf (Bangs) - The Song of the Wandering Aengus (Yeats)
- Poems that Take Flight:
The Eagle (Tennyson) - About Rachel Field
Something Told the Wild Geese (Field) - The Swing (Stevenson)
- Inspiration:
About Edgar A. Guest
It Couldn’t be Done (Guest) - Wild Ride #2:
About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson) - Sensible Nonsense:
About A.A. Milne
Jonathan Jo (Milne) - The King’s Breakfast (Milne)
- About Vachel Lindsay
The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (Lindsay) - About Edward Lear
The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Lear) - Bedtime and Dreamtime:
Bed in Summer (Stevenson) - About Thomas Hood
In The Summer When I Go to Bed (Hood) - About Eugene Field
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Field) - About Leigh Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem (Hunt)
Additional Information
Contributor | Jim Weiss |
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Series | |
Age Range | 5 and Up |
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