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Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons: A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems, Volume 1
Classic children’s poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, all performed by Jim Weiss.
Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, and many more.
And don’t miss the beautiful Illustrated Reader that we created to accompany these poems.
Includes:
Poems About Nature
Wild Rides
Poems About America
Sensible Nonsense
Poems that Take Flight
Inspiration
Bedtime and Dreamtime
Full Track List:
- 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) - Conclusion
ABOUT JIM WEISS:
Jim Weiss’s story recordings and books offer a welcoming doorway into the world’s greatest stories from literature and history. His vivid retellings of the classics have received more than one hundred major awards from organizations such as the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice Foundation, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and Film Advisory Board. More importantly, the stories form the heart of daily learning and meaningful entertainment in households and schools around the world.
To hear Jim tell a story is to become swept up in the tale. He includes information about people and events behind the stories, and encourages children to read the original classics, on their own or with the help of more experienced readers. So listeners leave the storyteller’s circle inspired to learn even more and to develop their own creative gifts.
Jim Weiss believes the joy of reading, writing and creative activity begins in the presence of the storyteller.
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Classic children’s poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, all performed by Jim Weiss.
Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, and many more.
And don’t miss the beautiful Illustrated Reader that we created to accompany these poems.
Includes:
Poems About Nature
Wild Rides
Poems About America
Sensible Nonsense
Poems that Take Flight
Inspiration
Bedtime and Dreamtime
Full Track List:
- 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) - Conclusion
ABOUT JIM WEISS:
Jim Weiss’s story recordings and books offer a welcoming doorway into the world’s greatest stories from literature and history. His vivid retellings of the classics have received more than one hundred major awards from organizations such as the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice Foundation, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and Film Advisory Board. More importantly, the stories form the heart of daily learning and meaningful entertainment in households and schools around the world.
To hear Jim tell a story is to become swept up in the tale. He includes information about people and events behind the stories, and encourages children to read the original classics, on their own or with the help of more experienced readers. So listeners leave the storyteller’s circle inspired to learn even more and to develop their own creative gifts.
Jim Weiss believes the joy of reading, writing and creative activity begins in the presence of the storyteller.
Additional Information
Age Range | 7 and Up |
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Contributor | Jim Weiss |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-945841-08-8 |
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