Poetry Speaks to Children [With CD]
By Elise Paschen (Editor); Dominique Raccah (Editor); Billy Collins (Editor)
(Sourcebooks Mediafusion, Hardcover, 9781402203299, 104pp.)
Publication Date: October 2005
Categories: Poetry - Humorous
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Description
Poetry Speaks to Children is an imaginative
treasury of the spoken and written word
for kids of all ages.?
52 Wonderful Performances by the poets and a few close friends, featuring:
Rita Dove Reads The First Book
---ROBERT FROST Reads Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
--GWENDOLYN BROOKS Growls The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
--Galway Kinnell Tells Why Crying (Lots) Is a Must
--OGDEN NASH Reads from The Adventures of Isabel
--MARY ANN HOBERMAN Reads Brother
(Can You Read It Faster?)
--X. J. Kennedy Reveals the Secrets of How to Stay Up Late
--Carl Sandburg Reads On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride
--Emma Fielding Performs LEWIS CARROLL?S JABBERWOCKY
--James Berry Reads Okay, Brown Girl, Okay
(and Tells You for Whom He Wrote It)
--J. R. R. TOLKIEN READS FRODO?S SONG IN BREE from the Lord of the Rings trilogy
--LANGSTON HUGHES Takes You on the Train Where He Wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers
--Janet S. Wong Reads Good Luck Gold
(and Tells You What a Red Egg and Ginger Party Is)
--Paul Muldoon Reads from W. B. YEATS and Rainer Maria Rilke
--Basil Rathbone (Best Known as Sherlock Holmes)
Reads from THE RAVEN
--Brad Leithauser Reads Joey
--Poetry Alive! Takes You Out to the Ball Game with
CASEY AT THE BAT
--Sonia Sanchez Reads A Poem for Jesse
--Robert Bly Has a Conversation with a Mouse
--NIKKI GIOVANNI Tells You the Reason She Likes Chocolate
--Eddie Douglas Performs Dennis Lee's The Ghost and Jenny Jemima
--Joy Harjo Sings an Eagle Poem
--ROALD DAHL Reads The Dentist and the Crocodile
--BILLY COLLINS Remembers On Turning Ten
treasury of the spoken and written word
for kids of all ages.?
52 Wonderful Performances by the poets and a few close friends, featuring:
Rita Dove Reads The First Book
---ROBERT FROST Reads Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
--GWENDOLYN BROOKS Growls The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
--Galway Kinnell Tells Why Crying (Lots) Is a Must
--OGDEN NASH Reads from The Adventures of Isabel
--MARY ANN HOBERMAN Reads Brother
(Can You Read It Faster?)
--X. J. Kennedy Reveals the Secrets of How to Stay Up Late
--Carl Sandburg Reads On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride
--Emma Fielding Performs LEWIS CARROLL?S JABBERWOCKY
--James Berry Reads Okay, Brown Girl, Okay
(and Tells You for Whom He Wrote It)
--J. R. R. TOLKIEN READS FRODO?S SONG IN BREE from the Lord of the Rings trilogy
--LANGSTON HUGHES Takes You on the Train Where He Wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers
--Janet S. Wong Reads Good Luck Gold
(and Tells You What a Red Egg and Ginger Party Is)
--Paul Muldoon Reads from W. B. YEATS and Rainer Maria Rilke
--Basil Rathbone (Best Known as Sherlock Holmes)
Reads from THE RAVEN
--Brad Leithauser Reads Joey
--Poetry Alive! Takes You Out to the Ball Game with
CASEY AT THE BAT
--Sonia Sanchez Reads A Poem for Jesse
--Robert Bly Has a Conversation with a Mouse
--NIKKI GIOVANNI Tells You the Reason She Likes Chocolate
--Eddie Douglas Performs Dennis Lee's The Ghost and Jenny Jemima
--Joy Harjo Sings an Eagle Poem
--ROALD DAHL Reads The Dentist and the Crocodile
--BILLY COLLINS Remembers On Turning Ten
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