Grave markers in Burke County, Georgia, with thirty-nine cemeteries in four adjoining counties

One hundred years of poetry for children

100 years of poetry for children

Library / The word party / Whatif / What's what / The boyhood of Dracula / Not my day / The pancake collector / The frog prince / Alice and the frog / A spell for midnight / Spell against sorrow / The listeners / Welsh incident / Dialogue between ghost and priest / Mary Celeste / Great black-backed gulls / They call to one another / Everyone sang

The animals' arrival / The tickle rhyme / The example / Considering the snail / The sloth / Something told the wild geese / Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / Trophy / We are going to see the rabbit / Song of the battery hen / The snare / Cat's funeral / The thought-fox / Dog body and cat mind / Poem / Horses on the Camargue / Horses / The donkey / Fetching cows / The flower-fed buffaloes / Caring for animals

For a five-year-old / It was long ago / The game of life / When I was christened / Adventures of Isabel / Father says / Playgrounds / Where's everybody? / Truth / Car wash / The tunnel / Tich Miller / Televised / The shoes / Into my heart / Fern Hill / By St. Thomas water / I wish I were ... / Lost days / A child's calendar / Revelation / Unrecorded speech / A recollection / The lesson / Follower / The icing hand / Piano / About friends / Legend / Walking away

The leader / The first men on Mercury / Resurrected / Pitying heaven / About his person / Men of Terry Street / Every day in every way / The embankment / The man on the desert island / Not waving but drowning / Why Brownlee left / Hunger / O what is that sound / Evans / Not my best side / Old woman / Sensitive, seldom, and sad / The doomed spaceman / A Martian sends a postcard home

For the record / in Just-spring / April rain song / 'There will come soft rains' / Day of these days / Midsummer, Tobago / Hard frost / The midnight skaters / Fog / The more it snows / On a night of snow / London snow / When skies are low and days are dark / The side way back / Southbound on the freeway / The day the world ended / Preludes / Encounter at St Martin's / Shadows / Mending wall / Wall / The old ships / Posted / The sea / Look, no hands

Drummer Hodge / Abbey tomb / The soldier / Newscast / My boy Jack / As the team's head-brass / Anthem for doomed youth / Naming of parts / Vergissmeinnicht / Your attention please / No more Hiroshimas / Fifteen million plastic bags / In the desert knowing nothing / Carriers in the Gulf / A poem about poems about Vietnam / Tiananmen / The sunlight on the garden

I so like spring / The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Like a flame / First love / Lipservice / Love poem / Any prince to any princess / A subaltern's love-song / Tarantella / Water / No sense of direction / Valentine / The highwayman / An Arundel tomb / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / Sometimes

Legion airs : songs of "over there" and "over here"

Songs of "over there" and "over here"

Over there / There's a long, long trail / The rose of No Man's Land / Keep the home-fires burning till the boys come home / My Belgian rose / When you wore a tulip and I wore a big red rose / Good-bye Broadway, hello France! / It's a long, long way to Tipperary / The stammering song : K-K-K-Katy / Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile! / Anchors aweigh, the song of the Navy. The sunshine of your smile / Where do we go from here? / My wild Irish rose / Till we meet again / Smiles / My buddy / You'll be there

When Pershing's men go marching into Picardy / Stand, stand up America! / Don't bite the hand that's feeding you / To the legion! : marching song / Connecticut / A song of Florida / Song of the Illinois legionaire / New Hampshire marches on / Sons of Ohio / Legion buddies / Legionaires / The Jersey legionaire / Powder River / Good-bye, good luck, God bless you is all that I can say / The last long mile / I want to go home / Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers / The Darktown strutters' ball

Li'l Liza Jane / I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way / I ain't got weary yet! / It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind / The Army bean / The battle song of liberty / Good morning, Mr. Zip-zip-zip! / Our country : national hymn / Uncle Sam / Give me a kiss by the numbers / Would you rather be a colonel with an eagle on your shoulder, or a private with a chicken on your knee? / Star-spangled banner / America (My country 'tis of thee) / God save the king / Hail! hail! the gang's all here! / Song of the Navy / Have a little regiment of your own / She was just a sailor's sweetheart / I don't want to get well

Look at the ears on him : how do you get that way? / Pay-day! : that was his favorite call / 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon : for her lover who is fur, fur away / Soup song : all you little rookies, we wish the same to you / If I'm not at the roll-call (kiss Mother "goodbye" for me) / Roarious! : coast artillery marching song / Coast artillery song -- Your boy is on the coal pile now / A capital ship -- Sailing / Nancy Lee / Torpedo Jim / Song of the officers' torpedo class -- The countersigns -- Turkey in the straw / Sims's flotilla -- Home, boys, home! -- The recruit -- All we do is sign the pay-roll -- You're in the army now -- Mademoiselle from Armentières : hinky, dinky, parley voo -- Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!) / Homeward bound / music by Geo. W. Meyer, words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz -- Where they were -- Bombed! -- We do squads left -- The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling for you but not for me -- Beside a Belgian water-tank -- When this blinkin' war is over -- I wonder where my buddies are to-night? : a post-war memory ballad / The unknown soldier : [text of] poem

The Norton book of friendship

Invitation to Hsiao Chü-shih / Inviting a friend to supper / Epistle 1.5 / from The life of Samuel Johnson / from My mother's house / The walrus and the carpenter / To Thomas Manning / Here's a bottle and an honest friend / My boat / To the bachelor of arts P'ei Ti / Horses in flowers / The pasture / The evils of Spain

from Nicomachean ethics / from On friendship / from Of friendship / from Of friendship / from The rambler, no. 64 ; from The rambler, no. 40 ; from The idler, no. 23 / from The life of Samuel Johnson

To Joseph Haydn ; To Baron Gottfried von Jacquin / To George Strahan ; To James Boswell ; To Hester Thrale / To the Rev. James Stopford / To Jonathan Swift / To Madame d'Épinay / To Captain Richard Brown / To Jane Williams / To J.H. Reynolds ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To J.H. Reynolds ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To James Rice ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To Charles Brown ; To C.W. Dilke ; To the George Keatses ; To John Taylor ; To Charles Brown

from The Iliad / Epistle 1.3 / Epigram 5.42 ; Epigram 1.32 / Hearing that his friend was coming back from the war / Old age ; The letter ; To Liu Yu-Hsi ; Dreaming that I went with Lu and Yu to visit Yüan Chēn / from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti / To Giovanni da Pistoja on the painting of the Sistine Chapel ; To Tommaso Cavalieri / from The faerie queene / from To the immortal memory of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison / To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he had left us / To Mr T.W. / To Mrs. Mary Awbrey ; from Friendship / Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; To a friend / from Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. / from Retirement / A poison tree ; To Hayley ; To forgive enemies Hayley does pretend / To J.R. / May and death / We two, how long we were fool'd ; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / I'm nobody! who are you? ; I showed her hights she never saw ; We talked as girls do ; Elysium is as far / A snow-storm / The rakes of Mallow / A confession to a friend in trouble ; The man he killed / A Shropshire lad, LIV / The municipal gallery re-visited ; Friends ; The lover pleads with his friend for old friends ; A deep-sworn vow ; To a friend whose work has come to nothing / Mr. Flood's party / The listeners / Sonnets to Orpheus, 1.24, 2.8 / Boris Pasternak ; There are four of us ; If all who have begged help / In memoriam / To my friend / The friends / Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias / To Francisco López Merino ; To a minor poet of the Greek anthology / Poem / from Hearts of gold / For friends only ; The common life / Elegy for Jane / Do the others speak of me mockingly, maliciously? / What is the opposite of two? / With mercy for the greedy / Vita amicae / Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff / Forest of Europe / The view from Mount Saint Helens / Friends through at New Year's

This lime-tree bower my prison / from The Grasmere journals / from Christabel / To William Wordsworth / Popular fallacies, XVI : that a sulky temper is a misfortune ; The old familiar faces

The Bible. from The book of Ruth. Chapters 1-4 ; from The book of Samuel. Book I, chapters 18, 19, 20, 23, 31 ; Book 2, chapters 1, 4, 9.

Sonnet 29 ; Sonnet 30 ; Sonnet 32 ; Sonnet 37 ; Sonnet 71 ; Sonnet 104 ; Sonnet 116 ; from A midsummer night's dream ; from The merchant of Venice ; from 1 Henry IV ; from 2 Henry IV ; from Julius Caesar ; from As you like it ; from Hamlet ; from Timon of Athens ; from The winter's tale ; from The two noble kinsmen

To Nathaniel Hawthorne / To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) / Correspondence

The voice / The three hermits / Ithaka / Kashtanka / Otherwise birds fly in / Brooksmith / Miss Tempy's watchers / Guests of the nation / The fisherman who had no one to go out in his boat with him / Friendship / A little cloud

Correspondence / from Edward Lear : landscape painter and nonsense poet / To Emily Tennyson ; To Ruth Decie ; To John Ruskin / To Hugh Walpole ; To William Dean Howells / To O.W. Holmes, Jr. ; To his class at Radcliffe College / To William Makepeace Thackeray

To Theodore Dreiser ; To James Joyce ; To Jim Tully / My friend McNulty / Ring ; To Ernest Hemingway ; To Maxwell Perkins / from Max Perkins : editor of genius / To Sidney Cox / To Malcolm Cowley ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Erik Boheman ; To Mrs. Robert K. Haas ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Phillip E. Mullen

from Juvenile journal / from Paris was yesterday / from Memoirs / from Marianne Thornton : a domestic biography / from Your mirror to my times / from De profundis / from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / from Pioneers of France in the New World / Gwendolyn / from Clear pictures / from Julia / from Night / from Sketches from a life

To Eberhard Bethge / Correspondence / Correspondence

To Marianne Moore / To Ezra Pound / Correspondence / from Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore / Crusoe in England / from Four poems for Elizabeth Bishop / Correspondence / To Gummo Marx ; To Russell Baker

from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / from Friendship / from Notes on English character ; from What I believe / from Men in dark times / from A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures, of friendship / from Friendship / from Friendship

Birds of a feather ; A friend in need is a friend indeed / Fable 8.11 : The two friends / from The gouernour / from Somewhere a master / Yoruban folktale -- from Childhood and poetry / from The people of the sea

School ; Our afterlife II / from Robert Trail Spence Lowell / from Gulliver in Lilliput : remembering Robert Lowell / Ford Madox Ford ; from Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 / The sounds of rain

To Olivia Shakespear / from Journals / To Henry Yorke / To Gerald Brenan ; To Dora Carrington ; from Diary / To William Plomer ; To Virginia Woolf

On seeing off Meng Hao-Jan ; Taking leave of a friend ; Exiles' letter / To Wei Pa, a retired scholar / An excuse for not returning the visit of a friend / To Ch 'i-wu Ch 'ien bound home after failing in an examination / from To the ship in which Virgil sailed to Athens / To Thomas Moore / To a friend parting / To a friend going on a journey / Anaktoria / from Return to yesterday / Auld lang syne

The Random House book of poetry for children

Book of poetry for children

Introduction -- Nature Is : -- Auguries of innocence / All things bright and beautiful / I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Universe / Measurement / On the Bridge / Flint / Wolf Cry / Secret song / Last rites / Trees / Crocus / Dandelion / Ferns / Birch trees / Wind-wolves / Wind / Mountain wind / Windy nights / Who has seen the wind? / Mountain brook / River winding / Water's edge / Mud / Muddy puddle / Sea shell / Sea / Until I saw the sea / Rain has silver sandals / Rain clouds / To walk in warm rain / Rhyme / More it snows / First snow / When all the world is full of snow / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Snowflake / Check / Moon's the north wind's cooky / Star / Night comes / Night / Silver / Night is a big black cat / Four Seasons : -- Months / Four seasons / January / Martin Luther King / Lincoln / Ground hog day / Beyond winter / Valentine / Ice / Washington / Smells / February twilight / Paper dragons / Maple feast / When / Daylight saving time / March / March wind / Wearing of the green / Spring rain / Ode to spring / Easter / Spring is / On mother's day / Spring / Good-by my winter suit / Moment in summer / Rocket in my pocket / Maytime magic / Summer / Joyful / October / October / August / Harvest home / This is Halloween / Lazy witch / Thanksgiving magic / 12 October / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving day / Light the festive candles / Children's Carol / Winter moon / I heard a bird sing / Merry Christmas / From : a Christmas package / Visit from St Nicholas / Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats : -- Waltzer in the house / Mice / Chipmunk's song / To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / Rabbit / Hedgehog / Bat / Bat / Sloth / Camel / Camel's complaint / Buffalo dusk / Hippopotamus / Holding hands / Oliphaunt / Wolf / Beside the line of elephants / Four little foxes / Grandpa bear's lullaby / Lesser lynx / Polar bear / Lion / Lion / Leopard / Seal / Performing seal / Donkey / Wild, the free / Mandrill / Ode to the pig : his tail / Pig /Roland Young -- Hairy dog / Pig is never blamed / Cow / Roger the dog / Lone dog / Sunning / Bliss / I've got a dog / His highness's dog / Cat of cats / Cat in despondency / Cats of kilkenny / Country barnyard / Cats / Cat / Little things / Feather or fur / Cat's menu / Ways Of Living Things : -- Hey, Bug! / Hurt no living thing / Green stems / Bug sat in a silver flower / Crickets / Praying mantis / Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Wasps / Flea / Bug in a jug / Bug / Oh the toe-test! / When mosquitoes make a meal / Cockroaches / Dragonfly / Fireflies in the garden / Caterpillar / Tickle rhyme / Ladybug / Codfish / Wee little worm / Flattered flying fish / Long gone / Shark / Fishes' evening song / Sally and Manda / Lizard / Boa / Brontosaurus / Desert tortoise / Frog / Crocodile / Samuel / Tree frog / Hummingbird / Polliwog / Baby talk / Canary / Ducks' ditty / Duck / Blackbird / Sea gull / Sandpiper / Sandpiper / Something told the wild geese / Hen / Night heron / Vulture / Sparrow hawk / Eagle / City, Oh City!: -- Just for one day / Riveter / Gift with the wrappings off / City, city / Sing a song of subways / Things to do if you are a subway / Flowers are a silly bunch / Rudolph is tired of the city / That May morning / Umbilical / Sunrise / People / People upstairs / Zebra / Crowds / Concrete mixers / They've all gone south / Pigeons / Sing a song of people / Stickball / Sad song about Greenwich village / Fog / Alley cat school / Open hydrant / April rain song / City lights / Rainy nights / City / Frightening / Where are you now? / Foghorns / City dump / Cockpit in the clouds

Children, Children Everywhere : -- Hug o' war / Advice to small children / Joke / Changing / Somebody / I saw a little girl I hate / Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Love / I love you / Question / I hate Harry / Puzzle / John, Tom, and James / Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Yip-yap rattletrap / Tag along / Ten kinds / There was a little girl / Two people / Read this with gestures / Table manners / Jack / Bubble gum / Did you? / Why run? / Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Eat-it-all Elaine / Tired Tim / Wendy in winter / Tony baloney / Fernando / Queenie / Jessica Jane / Follow the leader / Freddy / Girls can, too! / No girls allowed / Little Clotilda / We're racing, racing down the walk / Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / Wrestling / Measles / Barbershop / Wiggly giggles / Since Hanna moved away / Lullaby / What in the world? / Me I Am!: -- My name is / Me / My father owns the butcher shop / I am Rose / Me / Every time I climb a tree / Reason I like chocolate / Mark's fingers / When I was lost / Keziah / Just me / How to get there / Wolf / Dust of snow / Sulk / If no one ever marries me / Broom balancing / About feet / On the skateboard / I can fly / Basketball / Basketball star / Song / Growing up / Marrog / Everybody says / Stupid old myself / Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Surprises / If we didn't have birthdays / History / I am cherry alive / I'm really not lazy / Winter clothes / I'm nobody! who are you? / Yawning / Rhinos purple, hippos green / One day when we went walking / Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside : -- Wrong start / Mother's nerves / John / Waking / Mother doesn't want a dog / Amelia mixed the mustard / I wish I could meet the man that knows / Some things don't make any sense at all / First tooth / Bringing up babies / Six weeks old / Help! / Lil' bro' / My brother / Leave me alone / Myra song / Let other share / In the motel / Rules / Runaway / Soap / What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / They're calling / Going up / Up in the pine / Homework / Homework / Hot line / I'm alone in the evening / Winning of the TV west / Middle of the night / Our house / Two people / I'm Hungry!: -- My mouth / This is just to say / Tomorrow's the fair / Turtle soup / Oodles of noodles / Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / Egg thoughts / Pie problem / Meg's Egg / Celery / Taste of purple / Chocolate cake / Patience / My little sister / Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Chocolate, chocolate / Thousand hairy savages / I eat my peas with honey / Accidentally / I raised a great hullabaloo / Twickham tweer / Worm / Pizza / Soliloquy of a tortoise / Mr Pratt / Sneaky Bill / Some People I Know : -- Some people / People / Routine / Daddy fell into the pond / Smart / One misty, moisty morning / Thoughts on talkers / My brother Bert / Grandpapa / Growing old / Grandpa dropped his glasses / Manners / Uncle / Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Godmother / Too many dayes / Little boy and the old man / Tombstone / Air traveler / House-for sale / Jittery Jim / On a bad singer / Doctor Emmanuel / Hog-calling competition / Old Quin queeribus / There was on old man with a beard / Jonathan Bing / Poor old lady / Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Solomon Grundy / Mr Kartoffel / Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Sugar lady / Lord Cray / Together / Opposite of two / Sir Smasham uppe / Nonsense! Nonsense!: -- Jabberwocky / Toot! toot! / Higglety, pigglety, pop! / On the ning nang nong / Common cormorant / McIntosh apple / Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Butterfly's ball / Contrary waiter / Whoops! / Way down south / Duel / Owl and the pussy-cat / Hare and the pig / Alligator / Lizard / Serpent / Shark / I had a little pig / Ants at the Olympics / Animal fair / Purple cow / I asked my mother / Algy met a bear / Walrus / Adventures of Isabel / Alligator pie / Beela by the sea / You must never bath in the Irish stew / Did you ever go fishing? / Sensitive, seldom and sad / Josephine / Folk who live in backward town / Father William / Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Snail's dream / Twins / New vestments / Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Don't worry if your job is small / Number nine, Penwiper mews / Tender-heartedness / Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Young lady of Lynn / Herbert Glerbett

Alphabet Stew : -- Fly and a flea in a flue / Cow / Tutor / Weather / Two witches / Antonio / Habits of the hippopotamus / Bluffalo / Moses / Puffin / Eletelephony / Mr Bidery's spidery garden / Ptarmigan / Banananananananana / Clickbeetle / Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / Modern Hiawatha / Misnomer / To be or not to be / Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Have you ever seen? / Waiters / Atrocious pun / Wild flowers / J's the jumping jay-walker / Poetry / Lumps / Word / Yak / Feelings about words / Where Goblins Dwell : -- Some one / Ghosts / Something is there / Horseman / Hist whist / What's that? / Green candles / Witch! the witch! / Song of the witches / Owl / Wanted-a witch's cat / Eight witches / Witches' menu / Queen Nefertiti / Colonel Fazackerley / Song of the ogres / Three ghostesses / Darkling elves / Elf and the dormouse / Bogeyman / Troll / Wendigo / Father and mother / Fairies / Great auk's ghost / Pumpkin / Seven ages of elf-hood / Unicorn / How to tell goblins from elves / Little man / Gumble / Slithegadee / Bogus-boo / Wrimples / Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Spangled pandemonium / Creature in the classroom / Dinky / Plumpuppets / Could it have been a shadow? / Land Of Potpourri : -- Happy thought / Our washing machine / Introduction to songs of innocence / No holes marred / Steam shovel / Toaster / Tin frog / Driving to the beach / My nose / From : the bed book / Arithmetic / What is pink? / What is orange? / To be answered in our next issue / Base stealer / What is red? / Who's in / Library / Knockout / Foul shot / Yellow / Football game / Maps / If once you have slept on an island / Train song / Travel / Flight plan / To an aviator / Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / From a railway carriage / Toad / This little pig built a spaceship / Dreams / Far trek / How strange it is / Paint box / Keep a poem in your pocket / To dark eyes dreaming / Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- About the author/illustrator.

Literature and the child

Children and Books -- Children's and Adolescent Literature -- The Power of Literature -- Defining Literature for Children and Adolescents -- A Brief History of Literature for Children and Adolescents -- The Early Years -- The Twentieth Century -- Understanding Children's Literature in the Twenty-First Century -- Fiction or Nonfiction -- Narrative, Poetic, and Expository Texts -- Genres -- Distinguish among Fantasy, Contemporary Realism, and Historical Fiction -- Formats -- Global and Multicultural Literature -- Global Literature -- Multicultural Literature -- Selecting and Using Literature for Children and Adolescents -- Considering Literary Excellence -- Evaluating Cultural Content -- Standards, Mandates, Tests, and Time to Read -- Resources for Selecting Literature -- Summary -- Booklist -- Literature in the Lives of Young Readers -- A Transactional View of Reading Literature -- Profile: Louise Rosenblatt -- Readers -- Recognizing Response when You See It -- Creating Links across Stories -- Texts -- Diversity -- Making Thematic Connections: Learning about Yourself -- Ideology -- Contexts -- Classroom Contexts -- Scaffolding Written Response for English Language Learners -- Book Buddies -- Censorship and Selection -- Handling Censorship Attempts -- Summary -- Booklist -- Formats and Genres in Literature for Young Readers -- Picturebooks: A Unique Format in Children's Literature -- Defining Picturebooks -- A Brief History of Picturebooks -- Using Picturebooks to Help Students Learn about Literature -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Rosa -- Profile: Bryan Collier -- Considering Quality in Picturebooks -- A Focus on Illustration: Artistic Quality -- Elements of Visual Art -- Line -- Color -- Shape -- Texture -- Design -- Media and Technique -- Experiencing Media and Technique -- Styles of Art -- Representational Art -- Surrealistic Art -- Teaching Style to Children -- Impressionistic Art -- Folk Art and Naive Art -- Study the Art of Your Favorite Illustrator -- Outline Style -- Combining Styles -- From Cover to Cover: Artistic and Design Elements Specific to Picture Storybooks -- Brevity -- Elements "Surrounding" the Story -- The Relationship of Words and Pictures -- Size and Shape of the Book and the Illustrations -- Pictures and Words in Picturebooks -- Illustration Sequence -- Page Turns -- The Challenge of the Gutter -- Narrative Elements in Picture Storybooks -- Setting -- Characterization -- Plot -- Theme -- Style -- Picture Storybooks from Nursery through Adolescence -- Simple Storybooks for Young Children -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Monkey and Me -- Profile: Emily Gravett -- Storybooks for Primary-Grade Readers -- Wordless Storybooks -- Interactive Writing with Wordless Picturebooks and English Language Learners -- Picture Storybooks and Graphic Novels for Older Readers -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Woolvs in the Sitee -- Profile: Margaret Wild -- Picturebooks of Poetry and Song -- Nonfiction Picturebooks -- Concept Books -- Nonfiction for Preschool and Primary-Grade Readers -- Picturebook Biographies -- Alphabet Books and Books about Numbers -- Unique Formats -- Board Books and Participation Books -- Predictable or Patterned Books -- Beginning to Read Books -- Studying Picturebook Art in the Classroom -- Summary -- Booklist -- Poetry and Verse -- Defining Poetry -- A Brief History of Poetry for Young Readers -- Profile: David McCord, 1977 -- Profile: Aileen Fisher, 1978 -- Profile: Karla Kuskin, 1979 -- Considering Quality in Poetry and Poetry Anthologies -- Content That Speaks to Readers -- Profile: Myra Cohn Livingston, 1980 -- Profile: Eve Merriam, 1981 -- Profile: John Ciardi, 1982 -- Language That Enhances Meaning -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night -- Structure That Supports Meaning -- Break It Up! Exploring Line Breaks in Free Verse Poetry -- Poets Use Language in Interesting Ways -- Words as Sound -- Profile: Lilian Moore, 1985 -- Profile: Arnold Adoff, 1988 -- Profile: Valerie Worth, 1991 -- Choral Reading with Poems for Multiple Voices -- Words as Patterns -- Words as Pictures -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Fold Me a Poem -- Poetic Structures -- Narrative Poetry -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Carver: A Life in Poems -- Lyric Poetry -- A Variety of Forms and Voices -- Poetry in the Classroom -- Profile: Barbara Juster Esbensen, 1994 -- Profile: Eloise Greenfield, 1997 -- Profile: X.J. Kennedy, 2000 -- Profile: Mary Ann Hoberman, 2003 -- Profile: Nikki Grimes, 2006 -- Profile: Lee Bennett Hopkins, 2009 -- Profile: J. Patrick Lewis, 2011 -- Fifteen Minutes, Fifty Poems! -- Summary -- Booklist -- Folklore: A Literary Heritage -- Defining Folklore -- A Brief History of Folklore for Young Readers -- Considering Quality in Folklore -- Profile: Virginia Hamilton -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl -- Patterns in Folklore -- Conventions -- Motifs -- Discovering Story Structures with English Learners -- Themes -- An Exploration of Theme in Folklore -- Types of Folklore -- Nursery Rhymes -- Folktales -- Create a Folklore Performance -- Fables -- A CLOSE LOOK AT The Lion & the Mouse -- Profile: Jerry Pinkney -- Myths and Pourquoi Stories -- Search for Mythical Allusions -- Hero Tales: Epics and Legends -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Beowulf -- Profile: James Rumford -- Folk Songs -- Identify Folkloric Style -- Fractured Fairy Tales and Literary Folklore -- Folklore in the Classroom -- The Ancient Art of Storytelling -- Summary -- Booklist -- Fantastic Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction -- Defining Fantastic Literature -- A Brief History of Fantastic Literature -- Considering Quality in Fantastic Literature -- Setting -- Teaching Genre: Setting in Fantasy and Science Fiction -- Plot -- Characters -- Style -- Theme -- A CLOSE LOOK AT The Underneath -- Profile: Kathi Appelt -- Fantasy -- Quests and Fantasy Worlds -- Magic and Magic Realism -- A CLOSE LOOK AT The Storm in the Barn -- Profile: Matt Phelan -- Literary Lore -- Literary Tales and Folkloric Themes -- Animal Fantasy -- Miniature Worlds -- Science Fiction -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Incarceron -- Profile: Catherine Fisher -- Science Changes the World -- Thematic Exploration: Self-Knowledge -- Fantastic Literature in the Classroom -- Summary -- Booklist -- Contemporary Realistic Fiction -- Defining Contemporary Realistic Fiction -- Keep a Writer's Notebook -- A Brief History of Contemporary Realistic Fiction -- Considering Quality in Contemporary Realistic Fiction -- Setting -- Characterization -- Plot -- Theme -- Style -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Pictures of Hollis Woods -- Profile: Patricia Reilly Giff -- Ways to Think about Contemporary Realistic Fiction -- Popular Formats -- Thematic Connections: Discovering the Self -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Clementine -- Profile: Sara Pennypacker -- Distinctive Types -- Themes -- Study an Author's Work and Life -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Ten Miles Past Normal -- Profile: Frances O'Roark Dowell -- Mirror Texts for English Learners -- Contemporary Realistic Fiction in the Classroom -- Summary -- Booklist -- Historical Fiction -- Defining Historical Fiction -- A Brief History of Historical Fiction -- Considering Quality in Historical Fiction -- Historical Accuracy -- Setting -- Writing Connection: Descriptive Techniques -- Characterization -- Plot and Theme -- Style -- Illustrations -- A CLOSE LOOK AT The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate -- Profile: Jacqueline Kelly -- Thematic Exploration: Self-Knowledge -- History through Historical Fiction -- Prehistoric and Ancient Times -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance and the Age of Exploration -- Colonial through Post-Revolutionary War Times -- Westward Expansion and the Civil War -- A CLOSE LOOK AT The Porcupine Year -- Discussion: Compare Perceptions of a Historical Event -- Profile: Louise Erdrich -- Immigration and the Industrial Revolution -- World War I and Its Aftermath -- The Great Depression -- Genre Study: Compare Treatment of a Theme across Genres -- World War II and Its Aftermath -- The 1950s through the 1980s: Political and Social Turmoil -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Okay for Now -- Profile: Gary Schmidt -- Historical Fiction in the Classroom -- Summary -- Booklist -- Biography and Memoir -- Defining Biography and Memoir -- A Brief History of Biography and Memoir for Young Readers -- Considering Quality in Biography and Memoir -- Accuracy -- Setting and Plot -- Portrayal of Subject -- Compare Biographies about One Person -- Style -- Theme -- Illustrations -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave -- Profile: Laban Carrick Hill -- Variety in Biographical Subjects -- Political and Military Leaders.

A CLOSE LOOK AT The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery -- Profile: Steve Sheinkin -- Philosophers and Religious Leaders -- Scientists and Inventors -- Thematic Connection: Self-Knowledge -- Adventurers and Explorers -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream -- Profile: Tanya Lee Stone -- Practitioners of the Arts -- Sports Heroes -- Extraordinary Ordinary People -- Biography and Memoir in the Classroom -- Building a Biography Collection -- Using Biography with Other Genres to Study an Era -- Who Becomes a Biographical Subject? -- Organizing Biography by Theme -- Summary -- Booklist -- Nonfiction -- Defining Nonfiction -- A Brief History of Nonfiction for Young Readers -- The Dominance of Nonfiction: Twenty-Four Hours -- Considering Quality in Nonfiction -- Accuracy -- Organization -- Design -- Genre Study: Noting the Aesthetic in Nonfiction -- Style -- A CLOSE LOOK AT If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge -- Profile: Marc Aronson -- Common Subjects in Nonfiction -- Science and Mathematics -- Make an Alphabet Book or Glossary -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot -- Profile: Sy Montgomery -- Profile: Nic Bishop -- Social Studies -- Language, Literature, and the Arts -- Thematic Connection: Learning about Family History -- A CLOSE LOOK AT Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring -- Profile: Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan -- Profile: Brian Floca -- Nonfiction in the Classroom -- Types of Nonfiction -- Critical Reading and Thinking -- Read First, Write Later -- Summary -- Booklist -- In the Classroom -- Literature-Based Instruction: Kindergarten through Third Grade -- Children's Literature and Emergent Literacy -- Literature-Based Instruction -- Ways to Explore Literature in Preschool and Primary-Grade Classrooms -- Create a Classroom Library -- Reading Aloud -- Supporting Children's Growing Literary Understanding -- Select Media for Your Classroom -- Oral Language and Literature -- Discussion -- Response to Literature for English Language Learners -- Storytelling by Children -- Choral Speaking -- Drama -- Variations of Literature-Based Instruction -- Using Literature with Emergent and Beginning Readers -- How to Prepare for Readers' Theatre Performances -- Using Literature to Integrate the Curriculum -- Literature Study with Primary-Grade Readers -- Assessment -- Summary -- Response-Centered, Literature-Based Instruction in Intermediate Grades and Middle School -- Response-Centered Literature Instruction -- Teaching Literature across the Year -- Book Club -- Response-Centered Project Ideas for Individual Books -- Reading Workshop -- Create a Classroom Reader's Choice Award -- Teaching Individual Books -- Teaching the Language of Literature to English Language Learners -- Scaffolded Reading Experiences (SRE) -- Create a Response-Centered SRE -- Connecting Literature Study and Writing -- Using Literature to Transform the Larger Curriculum -- Assessment -- Summary -- A Selected Children's and Adolescent Book Awards -- American Library Association Awards -- John Newbery Medal and Honor Books -- Randolph Caldecott Medal and Honor Books -- Coretta Scott King Award and Honor Books -- Pura Belpre Award -- Robert F. Sibert Award -- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal -- Margaret A. Edwards Award -- Michael L. Printz Award -- Theodore Seuss Geisel Award -- Schneider Family Book Award -- National Council of Teachers of English Awards -- The Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children -- Orbis Pictus Award and Honor Books -- International Reading Association Awards -- IRA Children's Book Award -- International Awards -- Library Association Carnegie Medal -- Hans Christian Andersen Award -- Mildred L. Batchelder Award -- Other Awards -- Ezra Jack Keats Award -- Boston Globe -- Horn Book Awards -- How to Update Current Listings and Find Other Awards -- Resources -- Book Selection Aids -- General Reference Books about Authors and Illustrators.

London : a history in verse

Confessio amantis -- The vision of piers plowman -- The Canterbury tales -- La male regle de T Hoccleue -- King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London -- London lickpenny -- Collyn Clout -- "London, thou art of townes A perse" -- "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" -- "London, hast thou accusèd me" -- The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Prothalamion -- King Edward the first -- Tichborne's elegy -- Poly-olbion -- Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII -- Summer's last will and testament -- Skialetheia -- The devil in an ass On the famous voyage -- Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --

The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place -- The city madam -- The knight of the burning pestle -- Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey -- London's progress -- Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry -- London, look back -- An ode for him [Ben Jonson] His return to London His tears to Thamasis -- London sad London : an echo -- On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty -- When the assault was intended to the city -- The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company -- Cooper's hill -- The civil war -- To Althea, from prison : song -- London's resurrection -- A rhapsody -- The cries of London -- An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland -- Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe -- In the fields of Lincoln's inn -- A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") A ramble in St. James's park --

A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal -- A winter wonder: or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there -- The wonders of the deep -- A song -- A description of the morning A description of a city shower Clever Tom Clinch A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; from On poetry : a rhapsody -- Trivia : or, The art of walking the streets of London ; from The beggar's opera -- The fair lass of Islington -- The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad -- Six town eclogues -- On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 -- A description of London -- Hail, London! -- London -- London bridge Oranges and lemons "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" "Poussie, poussie, baudrons" "Up at Piccadilly oh!" "See-saw, sacradown" "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" "As I was going o'er London bridge" "As I was going o'er London bridge" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel -- The sweepers -- Description of an author's bedchamber -- The task -- Twon eclogues -- Song for the London volunteers West End fair -- The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping -- The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --

London's summer morning -- Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem -- London -- The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude -- Horace in London -- To Hampstead Description of Hampstead -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan -- Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third -- Sonnet -- "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern -- Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory -- Scenes in London : Piccadilly-- Goodnight to the season -- Aurora Leigh -- In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle -- Have you been to the crystal palace? -- Waring -- There was an old person of Putney ; There was an old man of Blackheath ; There was a young person of Kew ; There was an old person of Bow ; There was a young lady of Greenwich ; There was an old person of Ealing ; There was an old person of Bromley ; There was an old person of Sheen ; There was an old man of Thames Ditton -- To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --

The cries of London -- In a London drawingroom -- Strike of the London Cabmen -- St. James's street -- Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London -- Tiber, Nile, and Thames -- A London fête -- Sunday at Hampstead -- A Cockney's evening song -- Bloomsbury -- A new song of the spring garden -- Beyond the last lamp ; The coronation ; In the British museum In St. Paul's a while ago Coming up Oxford street : evening A refusal To a tree in London Christmas in the Elgin room -- To a London sparrow -- London snow Trafalgar square -- London voluntaries ; from London types -- Impression du matin -- London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment -- "From the wash the laundress sends" -- In London town -- A March day in London Straw in the street -- In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war -- London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London -- Vacillation -- London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross -- In Nunhead cemetery -- As I walked through London -- The embankment -- Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 -- London streets Parting in wartime --

Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house -- The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets -- Fleet street -- St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche -- "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" -- Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery -- The shop The searchlight -- Armistice Day, 1918 -- Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne -- Suburb -- Homage to the British museum -- The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells -- Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon -- Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama -- Regent's park terrace Train to work -- London buses -- Memento mori -- First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --

Wentworth place : Keats grove -- Kew gardens -- Westminster abbey -- Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London -- Monmouth street -- Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate -- The night city -- A tour of London -- The "bête noire" fragments -- The stations of King's cross -- Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- To Londoners -- Street scene Soho : Saturday night -- Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 -- The tower of London -- Autobiography Talbot road -- Vauxhall Bottleneck -- Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas -- Rising damp Widening the Westway -- Fate playing Epiphany -- Omeros -- A202 -- The same power -- Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament -- Parliament hill fields --

Cashpoint Charlie -- Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London -- London songs ; from The shires -- The London poems -- The underground District and circle -- Rain journal : London : June 65 -- Outside Biba's -- In England -- Sunday Morning -- Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill -- Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston -- Earls court -- Pleasure island, marble arch -- Lonely hearts After the lunch -- Perduta gente -- North London sonnet Exasperated piety -- Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields -- Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames -- Island man -- The miracle at Shepherd's bush -- London plane -- Sonny's Lettah -- St. Bride's -- The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --

Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman -- John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke -- Woman seated in the underground, 1941 -- The London dissector -- Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse -- Cockney -- Almost the equinox -- kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road -- Smash the windows -- The bombs, July 2005 -- Home -- River history -- The fires by the river -- KX -- Another Westminster bridge -- Yobbos! -- The tip -- German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London -- Donjong heights -- Big skies over docklands -- "Girl with ridiculous earrings"