| Edition |
First edition. |
| Physical Description |
47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Note |
Ages 6-9. |
| Contents |
Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
SPRING. Daybreak reminds us / Cid Corman ; Spring / Raymond Souster ; The Red Wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams ; The Island / Lillian Morrison ; In Passing / Gerald Jonas ; Water lily / 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 ; Bronze 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 door / 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. |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, American.
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| Alt Author |
Janeczko, Paul B., editor.
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Sweet, Melissa, 1956- illustrator.
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