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Firefly July : a year of very short poems / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Janeczko, Paul B., (editor of compilation.). Sweet, Melissa, 1956- (illustrator.).

Summary:

A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0763648426
  • ISBN: 9780763648428
  • Physical Description: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter.
SPRING -- Daybreak reminds us / Cid Corman -- Spring / Raymond Souster -- The Red Wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The Island / Lillian Morrison -- In Passing / Gerald Jonas -- Water lilly / Ralph Fletcher -- Open-billed / X. J. Kennedy -- Window / Carl Sandburg -- SUMMER -- Little orange cat / Charlotte Zolotow -- Subway rush hour / Langston Hughes -- A Happy meeting / Joyce Sidman -- Firefly July / J. Patrick Lewis -- Sandpipers / April Halprin Wayland -- Bronce Age / Robert Morgan -- In the field forever / Robert Wallace -- Sea trade / Patricia Hubbell -- The Moon was but a chin of gold / Emily Dickinson -- FALL -- What is it the wind has lost / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser -- Screen dor / James Stevenson -- Headline / Cid Corman -- In the alley / Alice Schertle -- Tall city / Susan Michols Pulsifer -- The first September breeze fluttered / Liz Rosenberg -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- Between walls / William Carlos Williams -- Moonlight / Bruce Balan -- WINTER -- Old truck / Cynthia Pederson -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Uses for fog / Eve Merriam -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Snow fence / Ted Kooser -- The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase / Charles Reznikoff -- A wild winter wind / Anne Porter -- Night / Herbert Read -- A welcome mat of moonlight / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 6-9.
NP Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.5 0.5 165330.
Subject:
American poetry > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Children's poetry.

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