Title:
Knock at a star : a child's introduction to poetry
JLCTITLE245:
[compiled by] X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy ; illustrated by Karen Ann Weinhaus.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown, c1982.
Physical Description:
xii, 148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780316488532
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Abstract:
An anthology of mostly very short poems by standard, contemporary, and anonymous poets, intended to stimulate interest in reading and writing poetry.
Contents:
What do Poems do? -- Make You Smile -- Crunchy / Max Fatchen -- Commas / Douglas Florian -- My Mother Took Me Skating / Jack Prelutsky -- Learning / Judith Viorst -- There Was a Man / Dennis Lee -- Algy -- The Termite / Ogden Nash -- Spring is sprung -- The Ceiling / Theodore Roethke -- Miss McGillicuddy / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin -- Getting Together / N. M. Bodecker -- Tell Stories -- A Peanut sat on a railroad track / Anonymous -- The Knowledgeable Child / L. A. G. Strong -- The Purist / Ogden Nash -- What Has Happened to Lulu? / Charles Causley -- Coyote Blue / Judith Mountain-Leaf Volborth -- But Only the Breeze ... / Constance Levy -- The Outlaw / Felice Holman -- A Story That Could Be True / William Stafford -- Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast / John Ciardi -- John Henry -- Send Messages -- Before Starting / Walker Gibson -- Smokescreen / Charles Ghigna -- Subway Rush Hour / Langston Hughes -- The Golf Links / Sarah N. Cleghorn -- Spectacular / Lilian Moore -- Childhood / Frances Cornford -- Poor / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth -- Landscape / Eve Merriam -- A word is dead / Emily Dickinson -- Oh, God of dust and rainbows / Langston Hughes -- Time to Plant Trees / James Hayford -- Share Feelings -- Christmas morning i / Carol Freeman -- And Stands There Sighing / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- My Brother / Bobbi Katz -- Leave Me Alone / Felice Holman -- Look Out! / Max Fatchen -- Zimmer in Grade School / Paul Zimmer.